{"id":1390,"date":"2024-02-17T19:53:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T14:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:13:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:43:03","slug":"q-india-enacted-the-geographical-indications-of-goods-registration-and-protection-act-1999-in-order-to-comply-with-the-obligations-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-india-enacted-the-geographical-indications-of-goods-registration-and-protection-act-1999-in-order-to-comply-with-the-obligations-to","title":{"rendered":"Q.\u00a0India enacted the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999 in order to comply with the obligations to"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>ILO<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IMF<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UNCTAD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>WTO<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (d) WTO<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"notes-hd-65d0b2fca6c1f\">Notes<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Geographical Indications (GI)&nbsp;<\/strong>are one of the eight&nbsp;<strong>intellectual property items&nbsp;<\/strong>coming under WTO\u2019s TRIPs (Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>According to the WTO, \u201cGeographical indications are indications which identify a good as originating in the territory of a Member, or a region or locality in that territory, where a given quality, reputation or other characteristics of the good is essentially attributable to its geographical origin.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>India enacted the Geographical Indication of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999 which came into force with effect from September 15, 2003, to&nbsp;comply with India\u2019s obligations under the TRIPS agreement<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Controller General of Patents, Designs &amp; Trade Marks (CGPDT), (under the Dept of Industrial Policy and Promotion of Ministry of Commerce and Industry)&nbsp;is the \u2018Registrar of Geographical indications\u2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The CGPDT directs and supervises the functioning of the Geographical Indications Registry (GIR).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Also Read:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/geographical-indications-gi-tags-in-india-upsc\/\">Geographical Indications (GI) tags in India<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Also Read:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/intellectual-property-rights-ipr-upsc\/\">Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: (d) WTO Notes Also Read:&nbsp;Geographical Indications (GI) tags in India Also Read:&nbsp;Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[44],"years":[55],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-science-and-tech","years-55"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":44,"label":"Science and Tech"}],"years":[{"value":55,"label":"2018"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":44,"name":"Science and Tech","slug":"science-and-tech","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":44,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":167,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}