الحماية المدنية للمؤشرات الجغرافية : دراسة مقارنة

الملخص EN

The traditional division of financial rights was known only to two types of rights, namely the right in kind and the personal right, and as a result of economic and social development, this led to the emergence of another set of rights called intellectual rights, and these rights are divided into copyright: which is what the author has the right to his mental production In literature, science and the arts, in addition to industrial property rights: they are those that respond to new innovations such as inventions, utility models, layout designs of integrated circuits, designs and industrial models, or they respond to distinctive emblems used to distinguish products such as trademarks and geographical indications, or are used to distinguish commercial establishments such as the trade name Likewise, the right of commercial property: which is what the merchant has of the right over his business as it is a moral property independent of the constituent elements.

Geographical indications are a right of industrial property, and it is one of the modern terminology that the Iraqi legislator has dealt with in amending the Trademarks and Trade Marks Law under the dissolved Coalition Authority Order No.

(80) issued on 4/26/2004 which defined geographical indications as “indications that determine the origin of A commodity is not in the region of a state, region, or place in that region whenever the quality, reputation and other characteristics of the commodity are mainly attributable to its geographical origin.

The Iraqi legislator defined geographical indications, and applied the provisions related to trademarks, although there is a difference between them, so what is the geographical indication? What are his pictures? How is it protected, and what are the types of protection