Geographical Indication Tagging Of Tribal Products

What is Geographical Indication?

Geographical Indications of Goods are demarcated as that facet of industrial property which indicate to the geographical indication indicating to a country or to a place located therein as being the country or place of origin of that product.

Typically, such a name communicates a guarantee of eminence and particularity which is essentially attributable to the fact of its origin in that defined geographical locality, region or country. Under Articles 1(2) and 10 of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, geographical indications are covered as a constituent of IPRs. They are also covered under Articles 22 to 24 of the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement.