Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Geographical Indications

Research Handbooks in Intellectual Property series

Edited by Dev S. Gangjee, Associate Professor, Law Faculty, University of Oxford; Research Fellow, Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, UK

Provenance matters like never before. Legal regimes regulating the use of Geographical Indications (GIs) protect commercially valuable signs on products – such as Darjeeling and Champagne – which signal the link to their regions of origin. Such regimes have been controversial for over a century. A rich, interdisciplinary work of scholarship, this Research Handbook explores the reasons for and consequences of GIs existing as a distinct category within intellectual property (IP) law. Historians, geographers, sociologists, economists and anthropologists join IP specialists to explore the distinguishing feature of GIs, that certain products are distinctively linked or anchored to specific places.

‘This handbook is intended for all those readers with an interest in GIs across a range of disciplinary backgrounds. Students, academics, policy makers and practitioners we think will find the work to be an invaluable resource and we are all, as usual, most grateful to Edward Elgar Publishing for the high standard and services they continue to offer us. Thank you very much, Elgar, for these specialist library titles and to Dev Gangjee and his team for this contribution to the IP library.’
– The Barrister Magazine