Following the adoption of the EU regulation 2023/2411 on GI protection for craft and industrial products, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has introduced a new service under its Operations Department focusing on Geographical Indications (GIs) and other Intellectual Property (IP) rights. Following the new EU legislative reform, EUIPO is designated as the EU’s competent organization for the recently launched GI scheme. In order to improve legal certainty and transparency, EUIPO has been actively involved by the European Commission in several GI-related activities since 2018. These activities include pre-assessing over 2 100 GI applications for agrifood products, holding multiple training sessions and awareness raising events, promoting GI systems internationally in places like China, India, Latin America and Africa, and creating IT tools like the database GIview. The preservation and promotion of GIs throughout Europe and beyond will continue to be supported and facilitated by EUIPO, as this expansion demonstrates.
Source: INSME SecretariatEUIPO introduces a Geographical Indications Service to its Operations Department
