Geographical Indication Sample Clauses

Geographical Indication. Geographical indication is a way of giving recognition to a particular product which originates from a region and bears some special characteristics or qualities, owing to its place of origin. These special characteristics or qualities may be due to factors such as natural factors (example soil, climate, temperature, moisture) or because of the method of preparation or manufacture (example traditional production methods), or other human factors such as specialization in the product and the maintaining of the 10 Section 2(b) of the Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act, 2001 defines ‘benefit sharing’ in relation to a variety as ‘protection of the benefit accruing to a breeder of such variety or such proportion of the benefit accruing to the breeder from an agent or license of such variety, for which a claimant shall be entitled as determined by the authority’.

Geographical Indication the name of a region, a specific place or, in exceptional cases, a country, which is used to distinguish or identify a product originating in that region, place or country, whose reputation, specific quality or certain characteristics may be attributed to that particular geographical origin, provided that the production, extraction and/or processing and/or creation thereof takes place in the defined geographical area;