The Company Bachus Ltd. produces wines in the Drinkerie region, which is famous for its high quality grapes that can only grow in Drinkerie's unique climate. The names of the Drinkerie region may be protected through geographical indications, which identify a product as originating from a specific place and possessing qualities due to local factors like climate and soil. Geographical indications can protect agricultural products as well as goods linked to human skills in their place of origin.
The Company Bachus Ltd. produces wines in the Drinkerie region, which is famous for its high quality grapes that can only grow in Drinkerie's unique climate. The names of the Drinkerie region may be protected through geographical indications, which identify a product as originating from a specific place and possessing qualities due to local factors like climate and soil. Geographical indications can protect agricultural products as well as goods linked to human skills in their place of origin.
The Company Bachus Ltd. produces wines in the Drinkerie region, which is famous for its high quality grapes that can only grow in Drinkerie's unique climate. The names of the Drinkerie region may be protected through geographical indications, which identify a product as originating from a specific place and possessing qualities due to local factors like climate and soil. Geographical indications can protect agricultural products as well as goods linked to human skills in their place of origin.
The Company Bachus Ltd. produces wines in the Drinkerie region, which is famous for its high quality grapes that can only grow in Drinkerie's unique climate. The names of the Drinkerie region may be protected through geographical indications, which identify a product as originating from a specific place and possessing qualities due to local factors like climate and soil. Geographical indications can protect agricultural products as well as goods linked to human skills in their place of origin.
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The Company Bachus Ltd.
Produces wines in the region of
Drinkerie, famous for the quality of the grapes grown there. The grapes used by the Bachus Company can only grow in the Drinkerie climate, thanks to the region’s specific environmental characteristic. In this case, how may the names “Drinkerie” be protected? (answer between 300 and 500 words) The names of the Drinkerie may be protected by the geographical indications. Geographical Indication is an indication that identifies a product. It originates from a definite territory. A geographical indication is a sign used on goods that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities or reputation that are due to that place of origin. Agricultural products typically have qualities that derive from their place of production and are influenced by specific local geographical factors, such as climate and soil. Whether a sign functions as a geographical indication is a matter of national law and consumer perception. Geographical indication may be used for a wide variety of an agricultural products, such as for example ''for olive oil produced in a specific of Italy or ''Rogue Fort'' for cheese produced in this region of France. The use of geographical indication is not limited to agricultural products. They may also highlight specific qualities of a product, which are due to human factors that can be found in the place of origin of the products, such as specific manufacturing skills and traditions. The producer of Geographical Indication needs to register their Geographical Indication product for preventing the Geographical Indication goods from misleading the public as to the geographical indication of the goods. Geographical Indications is a very useful tool to implement the development of the economics of all over the country .Therefore, it is needed to protect. There are many ways of protecting a geographical indication. The methods of protection of geographical indication have been differed from each country. It can be protected as laws against unfair competition from misleading the public consumers and registering as the geographical indications products. According to the Myanmar Trademark Law, Geographical indication means any indication which identifies goods as originating in the territory of a country, or a region or a locality in that territory, where a given quality, reputation or other characteristics of the goods is essentially attributable to its geographical origin; for example, Myanmar Thanakha, Myanmar Tea Leaf, SeinTaLone and etc….