GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS ROADBLOCK
March 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE LONG-RUNNING World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations over creating a geographical indications register for wines and spirits have taken a turn for the worse, a feat barely imaginable considering the talks' snail-like progress. A special meeting of the WTO Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) council ended in deadlock, with the usual two camps sticking to their guns over whether the register should have legal teeth or not. Diplomats could not even agree a document as the basis for future talks, with the European ...
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