European Union

Albania

Geographical Indications

18. Please explain how exceptions under Article 24 of the TRIPS Agreement are used in your jurisdiction. Please provide examples of the use of the exceptions by courts or lists of names considered as generic in your jurisdiction.

Exceptions like those foreseen in Article 24 of the TRIPS Agreement do not exist yet in Albanian legislation. Some of them will be provided for in new amendments in the near future. It is up to the Albanian Patent and Trademark Office to decide case by case during the examination procedure whether or not a name is generic.