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Gangjee, Dev S. --- "Introduction: timeless signs or signs of the times?" [2016] ELECD 299; in Gangjee, S. Dev (ed), "Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Geographical Indications" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016) 1

Book Title: Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Geographical Indications

Editor(s): Gangjee, S. Dev

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781847201300

Section: Chapter 1

Section Title: Introduction: timeless signs or signs of the times?

Author(s): Gangjee, Dev S.

Number of pages: 10

Abstract/Description:

After existing at the margins for over a century, Geographical Indications (GI) scholarship has come of age. Recognising and celebrating its maturity, this edited collection has two objectives: (1) to gather together the most insightful and interesting research, as a convenient and enduring point of reference; and (2) to facilitate an interdisciplinary conversation, allowing future avenues of enquiry to emerge from the themes and insights which follow. In looking back across several decades of deliberations, disagreements and experiments, the contributions in this volume offer up productive ways of looking forwards. In an increasingly globalised world, place and provenance matter as never before. Regimes regulating the use of GIs set out the conditions under which these signs signalling the provenance of products can be formally recognised and protected, the criteria to be satisfied when collectively using such signs and the extent to which these signs are protected against ‘outsiders’.