While well-known geographical indications, such as “Parmigiano Reggiano” or “Café de Colombia” are registered under both the GI and Community Trade Mark (CTM) systems, dual protection is a strategy that is by no means widely adopted by producer groups. Nevertheless, an appreciation of...

This contains the Table of Contents and Introduction for a book retracing the origins of Geographical Indications (GI) protection and the process by which they have emerged as a distinct category of subject matter within international Intellectual Property (IP) law. It sets out to locate GIs...

The proposal for a Regulation on Agricultural Product Quality Schemes for protecting names such as “Parma Ham” or “White Stilton Cheese” is intended to simplify the registration of geographical indications (PDOs and PGIs) and traditional specialities guaranteed (TSGs), under a single...

The protection of geographical indications, organic certification and food quality assurance schemes are the cornerstones of European food quality policy. In this paper the importance of these voluntary quality policy schemes in the different Member States of the European Union is investigated....

Previous studies on the value of terroir, or more generally geographical indications (GI), used hedonic techniques. We use historical data and exploit temporal and geographical variations in the introduction of wine GIs in early twentieth century France to study the impact on the price of...