Editing Geographical indication (section)

===Paris convention and Lisbon agreement===

[[International trade]] made it important to try to harmonize the different approaches and standards that governments used to register GIs. The first attempts to do so were found in the [[Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property|Paris Convention]] on trademarks (1883, still in force, 176 members), followed by a much more elaborate provision in the 1958 [[Lisbon Agreement on the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their Registration]]. About 9000 geographical indications were registered by Lisbon Agreement members.

[[File:Geographical Indications in force for selected national and regional authorities in 2022.png|thumb|Estimated geographical Indications in force for selected national and regional authorities in 2022]]
According to WIPO [[World Intellectual Property Indicators]] 2023, with data received from 91 national and regional authorities, there were an estimated 58400 protected GI in existence in 2022. Of the 58,400 GIs in force in 2022, upper middle-income economies accounted for 46.3% of the world total, followed by high-income (43.1%) and lower middle-income economies (10.6%). In terms of regional distribution, Europe had the most GIs in force, amounting to 53.1%, followed by Asia (36.3%), Latin America and the Caribbean (4.3%), Oceania (3.6%), North America (2.6%) and Africa 0.1%. Figures should nevertheless be interpreted with caution as GIs can be protected through many different means, ''sui generis'' systems, trademark systems, other national legal means, regional systems and international agreements (eg, Lisbon and Madrid systems).<ref>{{Cite web |title=World Intellectual Property Indicators (WIPI) - 2023 |url=https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/series/index.jsp?id=37 |access-date=2023-12-11 |website=World Intellectual Property Organization |language=en}}{{cc-notice|by4}}</ref>