Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration

The Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration, signed on 31 October 1958, ensures that in member countries, appellations of origin receive protection when are protected in their country of origin. It lays down provisions for what qualifies as an appellation of origin, protection measures and establishes an International Register of Appellations of Origin, run by the World Intellectual Property Organization. The agreement came into force in 1966, and was revised at Stockholm (1967) and amended in 1979. As of May 2015, 28 states are party to the convention and 1000 appellations of origin has been registered.^[1]

The agreements establishes a Special Union under Article 19 of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1883).^[2] Some aspects of the agreement have been superseded by the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.

2015 Act

In May 2015, the Geneva Act to the Agreement was adopted, formally extending protection to Geographical Indication and changing the name: Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications. The act furthermore allows intergovernmental organisations to be become parties. On 21 May the Act was signed by 13 states: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Congo, France, Gabon, Hungary, Mali, Nicaragua, Peru, Romania and Togo.

Parties

The treaty applies mutually between the parties of the 1958 Lisbon Agreement and the 1967 Stockholm Act, but not between a party solely to the 1958 Agreement and another party solely to the 1967 Stockholm act. The Geneva Act is not in force, but after it enters into force, it will only apply between the Geneva act parties. If a state is a party to multiple Lisbon instruments, then a registered appellation of origin registered under any of the instruments applies also to parties of the other instruments the state is a party to.

State	Lisbon Agreement	Stockholm Act	Geneva Act	Registered AO
Algeria		31 October 1973		7
Bosnia and Herzegovina		4 July 2013	Signed	0
Bulgaria		12 August 1975		51
Burkina Faso		2 September 1975	Signed	0
Congo		16 November 1977	Signed	0
Costa Rica		30 July 1997		1
Cuba	25 September 1966	8 April 1975		19
Czech Republic	1 January 1993	1 January 1993		76
Czechoslovakia	25 September 1966- 1 January 1993	31 October 1973- 1 January 1993
France	25 September 1966	12 August 1975	Signed	509
Gabon		10 June 1975	Signed	0
Georgia		23 September 2004		28
Greece	Signed
Haiti	25 September 1966			0
Hungary	23 March 1967	31 October 1973	Signed	28
Iran		9 March 2006		16
Israel	25 September 1966	31 October 1973		1
Italy	29 December 1968	24 April 1977		100
Macedonia		6 October 2010		4
Mali			Signed
Mexico	25 September 1966	26 January 2001		14
Moldova		5 April 2001		1
Morocco	Signed
Montenegro		3 June 2006		2
Nicaragua		15 June 2006	Signed	0
North Korea		4 January 2005		6
Peru		16 May 2005	Signed	8
Portugal	25 September 1966	17 April 1991		7
Romania	Signed		Signed
Serbia		1 June 1999		1
Slovakia	1 January 1993	1 January 1993		7
Spain	Signed
Togo		30 April 1975	Signed	0
Tunisia		31 October 1973		7
Turkey	Signed

See also

Geographic indications

References

External links

• Treaty text of
  • Original 1958 Agreement (in French),
  • 1967 Stockholm Act (as revised in 1979 amendment)
  • 1979 amendment
  • 2015 Geneva act