November 14, 2017 was an important day for West Bengal, as it
marked the end of a longstanding legal battle between Odisha and
West Bengal over a GI tag for the popular sweet
'Rosogolla'. The dispute had ended on positive note for
West Bengal, which including the Rosogolla, now possessed over 13
GI Tags. Recently, West Bengal announced that November 14 from 2018
onwards would be celebrated as the 'World Rosogolla Day',
to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the largely political
grant of the GI tag. The controversial grant raised a lot of
questions regarding the Geographical Indication tag.
The Geographical Indication Tag, more popularly known as the GI
tag was first pushed for at the WTO by the European Union in order
to protect its regional products such as the Champagne, Scotch etc
and grant monopoly for its trade in the international market. A GI
has been defined under Article 22 (1) of the Trade Related Aspects
of Intellectual Property Agreement as "Indication
