Law Article

  G eographical Indication indicates that particular goods originated from a country, region or locality and have some special characteristics, qualities or reputation which is attributable to their place of origin. The term goods have been defined to mean any agricultural, natural or manufactured goods or any goods of handicraft or industrial including food items. Indication has been defined to include any name, geographical or figurative representation or any combination of the conveying or suggesting the geographical origin of goods to which it applies. These special characteristics, qualities or reputations may be due to various factors such as raw materials, soil, regional climate, temperature, moisture etc, or the method of manufacture or preparation of the product such as traditional production methods or other human factors such as concentration of similar businesses in the same region, specialisation in the production or preparation of certain products and the maintaining