Implication of of geographical indications in WTO on Developing countries

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For the first time all Member countries agreed on definitions of GIs and on international dispute settlement mechanism in 1994. Negotiations on the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights ("TRIPS") were concluded this year...
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Governments of all WTO member countries (148 countries as of September 2003) had agreed to set certain basic standards for the protection of GIs in all member countries. There are, in effect, articles relating to GIs in the TRIPS agreement: 1. Article 22 of the TRIPS Agreement says that all governments must provide legal opportunities in their own laws for the owner of a GI registered in that country to prevent the use of marks that mislead the public as to the geographical origin of the good 2...
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