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Course Information
  • smart_display Format

    Live Online with Live Q&A

  • signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level

    Intermediate

  • work Practice Area

    Trademark and Copyright

Date & Time
  • event Date

    Wednesday, November 5, 2025

  • schedule Time

    1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT

  • timer Program Length

    90 minutes

Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.


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    On Demand

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This CLE course will guide IP counsel in protecting product brands using geographical indications (GIs). The panel will examine both U.S. and EU frameworks for safeguarding GIs. The panel will also discuss the challenges of registering and enforcing GIs and will offer best practices for overcoming those challenges to shield GIs and the brands.

Faculty

Patrick J. Gallagher
Partner
Barnes & Thornburg

Mr. Gallagher has deep experience in trademark clearance, investigation, prosecution, as well as client counseling and management of domestic and international trademark portfolios. He also has significant experience assisting clients with trademark enforcement, opposition and cancellation proceedings; brand protection programs; trademark, unfair competition and false advertising disputes and litigation; internet domain name disputes and proceedings (UDRPs); and trademark licensing. Mr. Gallagher provides tailored advice for handling IP issues involving social media; IP due diligence and IP licensing; copyright counseling, registration, protection and litigation; Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice and take down procedures; and domain name acquisition.

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Description

GIs identify a product as coming from a particular region that is well known for the high quality of that product. GIs are source identifiers and, like trademarks, add value and IP protection. In the U.S. GIs can be protected as trademarks. The best known example of a GI is Champagne. Other examples are Vidalia onions and Florida oranges.

GIs are not limited to the U.S. Many EU member states, including Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Sweden, are subject to regulations that protect registered GIs for agricultural products, foodstuffs, and alcoholic beverages. The European Commission maintains the GI register. Many other countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Croatia, Egypt, Indonesia, Switzerland, and Venezuela also have registration systems for GIs.

IP owners should understand both domestic and foreign regimes of GI protection to leverage the increased value stemming from GIs to their goods in the U.S. and abroad.

Listen as our authoritative panel of IP attorneys examines the framework for protection of GIs in the U.S. and the EU. The panel will discuss the challenges in registering and enforcing GIs and will offer guidance on overcoming registration and enforcement challenges to protect GIs and the brands.

Outline

I. Framework for protection of GIs in the U.S. and the EU

II. Registering GIs

III. Enforcing GIs

IV. Best practices to protect GIs and the brands

Benefits

The panel will review these and other high profile issues:

  • What is the framework under which GIs can be registered in the U.S.? In the EU?
  • What challenges do brand owners face in registering GIs and in enforcing them?
  • What steps should IP counsel take to protect brands leveraging GI protection?