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  • videocam Live Online with Live Q&A
  • calendar_month November 5, 2025 @ 1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
  • signal_cellular_alt Intermediate
  • card_travel Trademark and Copyright
  • schedule 90 minutes

Geographical Indications to Protect IP: Overcoming Challenges in Registering and Enforcing GIs

$347.00

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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.

Presented By

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. He 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.

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


  • Live Online


    On Demand

Date + Time

  • event

    Wednesday, November 5, 2025

  • schedule

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

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

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?