Minutes - TRIPS Council Special Session - View details of the intervention/statement

Ambassador C. Trevor Clarke (Barbados)
B.i Meeting of 23 October 2009, p.m.
53. The representative of Barbados said that, with regard to the Chair's second question, her delegation's partial preliminary view was that the significance and weight the national authorities of a country should give to information on the register would depend amongst other things on whether, for example, a trademark application consisted of a GI in that country. If the trademark applied for consisted of a GI in the country concerned, then little or no significance should be attached to the information on the register. Where, however, the trademark did not consist of a GI in the country concerned, then great significance and weight should be attached to the information on the register, assuming, of course, that the notified GI was indeed, a GI. In other words, if a trademark application in country A consisted of a GI in country A, then little significance and weight should be attached to the information on the register. If the trademark application in country A did not consist of a GI in country A, but of a GI in country B that had been notified to the register, then – assuming that the notified GI was truly a GI – great significance should be attached to the information on the register.
TN/IP/M/23