On 25 March 2021, the Bangkok International Performing Arts Meeting (BIPAM) and the Creative Economy Agency (CEA), in partnership with IP Key South-East Asia (SEA), organised a ‘Workshop on Intellectual Property in Performing Arts’ in Bangkok, Thailand. The workshop provided a platform for exchanges from more than 40 performing art practitioners, varying from directors and playwrights to university students.

On 16 March, the EUIPO held a meeting to introduce the SME initiatives to the six Latin American countries that have a memorandum of understanding with the EUIPO.

Geographical names, appellations of origin or traditional designations relate to products with specific qualities or characteristics that originate in the geographical environment in which they are produced.

The economic rationale behind geographical indications (GIs) is that their value is reliant on product specificity, constructed on the bond with the geographical territory, and dependent on plural factors that make up the product’s final and unique characteristics which allow consumers to differentiate between them.