The COVID-19 virus has brought new challenges to the global food and agricultural market. One challenge that is not new: efforts to restrict your right to use common food names.
– Bobby Koch, Wine Institute
Why can Europeans sell their common name cheeses in Wisconsin if we can’t sell ours in the EU?
In its Phase One deal with the U.S., China made critical commitments to lay out indicators of generic status and mandate greater clarity regarding the scope of protection for multi-term geographical indications (GIs). CCFN recently submitted comments to the Chinese government to help ensure it fulfills these commitments by advising on the development of its […]Read More »
CCFN is urging the U.S. government to take full advantage of the opportunity presented by upcoming trade negotiations with Kenya to build upon the advances made in USMCA, contain the EU’s aggressive misuse of geographical indications (GIs) to erect market access barriers and establish a precedent in sub-Saharan African regarding safeguards for the free use […]Read More »
The U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) annual Special 301 Report on global intellectual property protection and enforcement included a (dis)honorable mention of the European Union’s (EU) ongoing abuse of geographical indications (GIs) protections to prevent the trade of common name products. Prior to the report, CCFN filed extensive comments to USTR outlining the EU’s government-driven effort […]Read More »
Frequent readers of CCFN alerts know that CCFN was granted observer status by the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in October 2019. This is an important step forward in CCFN’s ability to ensure balanced dialogue in the development of fair geographical indications (GI) policies that safeguard common names side-by-side with GI protections, to […]Read More »
— Agri-MarkAs we work to introduce more people around the world to our great cheeses, we need to make sure that names with a long history of widespread usage remain open to us.
The EU is aggressively working to restrict your ability to use common food names. Your support is critical to counter these actions.
“CCFN and its members need to stay vigilant so the interests of producers of products with common names will continue to have access to global markets.” Read more
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