The Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and Their International Registration : An Assessment of a Controversial Agreement

After a brief review of the main features of the Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration, this article analyzes its controversial revision process and outcome, the recently adopted Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration, in order to assess to what extent the new Act features the flexibility necessary to make it more attractive and the consequent role of the Geneva Act in the broader context of the development of international law on geographical indications.