The Lisbon System for the Notification and Registration of Appellations of Origin
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The Lisbon Systemfor the
Notification and Registration of Appellations of Origin
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Necessary Legal Basis
• Substantive Requirements• Formal Requirements• Legal Effect
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Substantive Requirements(1)
Protection in the country of origin
• Ex ante recognition• “Appellation of origin” as defined in Lisbon• “Country of origin” as defined in Lisbon• Demarcation of the area of production
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Substantive Requirements (2)
Entitlement to file applications
– The competent authority of the country of origin
– Registration shall be effected in the name of those having, under their national legislation, a right to use the appellation
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Formal Requirements
• Official form• Fees: 500 Sfr (registration)
200 Sfr (modification)• Language: E, F or S• Translation and transliteration• Correction of irregularities• Certificate• Notifications to 3rd countries• Publication
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Legal Effect(1)
• Effect of international registration
– extension of protection to countries other than the country of origin
– indefinite (as long as the appellation is protected in the country of origin)
• Except in a country that ...
– issued a refusal (within the prescribed time-limit), or– invalidated the effect of the international registration
in its territory
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Grounds of refusal
As available at the domestic level
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Legal Effect(2)
• Required level of protection (at a minimum)
– protection against any usurpation or imitation– cannot be deemed to have become generic
• Standing for taking legal action
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Lisbon Agreement(1958)
• 23 Member States• 854 registrations (781 in force)
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THANK YOU
Matthijs GeuzeSenior Counsellor
WIPO