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

Ambassador D. Mwape (Zambia)
A.ii Second sub-question2
102. The representative of Peru said that, under Peruvian law, generic terms were not eligible for registration, either as GIs or as trademarks. At the time of assessing the application for registration the examiner would take into consideration all the various sources of information. Determinations could be challenged on administrative and judiciary levels. Moreover, if the application was opposed, the opponent had to substantiate the genericness claims. As regards oppositions, decisions thereon could also be challenged on administrative and judiciary levels.
The Special Session took note of the statements made.
TN/IP/M/27