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of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1883).^[2] Some aspects of the agreement have been superseded by the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.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		000000001973-10-31-000031 October 1973		7
Bosnia and Herzegovina		000000002013-07-04-00004 July 2013	Signed	0
Bulgaria		000000001975-08-12-000012 August 1975		51
Burkina Faso		000000001975-09-02-00002 September 1975	Signed	0
Congo		000000001977-11-16-000016 November 1977	Signed	0
Costa Rica		000000001997-07-30-000030 July 1997		1
Cuba	000000001966-09-25-000025 September 1966	000000001975-04-08-00008 April 1975		19
Czech Republic	000000001993-01-01-00001 January 1993	000000001993-01-01-00001 January 1993		76
Czechoslovakia	000000001966-09-25-000025 September 1966- 000000001993-01-01-00001 January 1993	000000001973-10-31-000031 October 1973- 000000001993-01-01-00001 January 1993
France	000000001966-09-25-000025 September 1966	000000001975-08-12-000012 August 1975	Signed	509
Gabon		000000001975-06-10-000010 June 1975	Signed	0
Georgia		000000002004-09-23-000023 September 2004		28
Greece	Signed
Haiti	000000001966-09-25-000025 September 1966			0
Hungary	000000001967-03-23-000023 March 1967	000000001973-10-31-000031 October 1973	Signed	28
Iran		000000002006-03-09-00009 March 2006		16
Israel	000000001966-09-25-000025 September 1966	000000001973-10-31-000031 October 1973		1
Italy	000000001968-12-29-000029 December 1968	000000001977-04-24-000024 April 1977		100
Macedonia		000000002010-10-06-00006 October 2010		4
Mali			Signed
Mexico	000000001966-09-25-000025 September 1966	000000002001-01-26-000026 January 2001		14
Moldova		000000002001-04-05-00005 April 2001		1
Morocco	Signed
Montenegro		000000002006-06-03-00003 June 2006		2
Nicaragua		000000002006-06-15-000015 June 2006	Signed	0
North Korea		000000002005-01-04-00004 January 2005		6
Peru		000000002005-05-16-000016 May 2005	Signed	8
Portugal	000000001966-09-25-000025 September 1966	000000001991-04-17-000017 April 1991		7
Romania	Signed		Signed
Serbia		000000001999-06-01-00001 June 1999		1
Slovakia	000000001993-01-01-00001 January 1993	000000001993-01-01-00001 January 1993		7
Spain	Signed
Togo		000000001975-04-30-000030 April 1975	Signed	0
Tunisia		000000001973-10-31-000031 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