27 November 2020TrademarksSarah Morgan

ARIPO registers goat breed as first GI; EUIPO launches GI search tool

The African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) has registered its first geographical indication (GI), in the same week that the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) launched a new search database.

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