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Austria has a long-standing of acceptance of IOs. Formerly, such where mainly protected by unfair competition provisions and multilateral and bilateral agreements that also contained IOs for trade products. Some court decisions clarified the status of IOs.
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“Gorgonzola”/“Österzola”, SZ 66/64 = ecolex 758, “American Bud”, ÖBl 222/2000.
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OGH 4 Ob127/05p, 17 Ob 20/11 g, ECJ, case C-478/07, ECR 2009 I-7721, “American Bud”.
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Articles of the “UWG”- Unfair Commercial Practices, see under https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokument.wxe?Abfrage=Erv&Dokumentnummer=ERV_1984_448.
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E.g. Wiener Opernball, Seefestspiele Mörbisch; 17 Ob 7/11w – Spanische Hofreitschule II, overriding 4 Ob 82/95 – Spanische Hofreitschule I/ Art. 9 para 1 UWG.
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Article 21 Geographical Indications of Domestic Wines:
(1) Wine which has been prepared solely from Austrian grapes and produced in Austria must be placed on the market with a name that points to the Austrian origin, as “Austrian wine” or “wine from Austria”. In the description of a wine with the name of a smaller geographical unit than “Austria” the following information shall be provided:
1. Wine regions,
2. Wine-growing areas (certain regions),
3. Large Vineyard areas (“Großlagen”),
4. Municipalities,
5. Vineyard or by federal state law envisaged viticulture corridors in connection with the name of the community, where the vineyard or the wine corridor located, provided that the community name is not apparent from the bottler indication.
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Indications from Austria protected by EU Regulations: Pöllauer Hirschbirne, Regulation 582/2015, OJ 2015 L 97, p. 4; Wachauer Marille, Regulation 1107/96, OJ 1996 L 148, p. 1, amended by Regulation 265/2013, OJ 2012 C 140, p. 18, L 82, p. 34; Tiroler Graukäse, Regulation 1263/96, OJ 1996 L 163, p. 19; Steirisches Kürbiskernöl, Regulation 1263/96, OJ 1996 L 163, p. 19; Marchfeldspargel, Regulation 1263/96, OJ 1996 L 163, p. 19, amended by Regulation 255/2015, OJ 2015 L 43, p. 3; Gailtaler Almkäse,123/97, OJ 1997 L 22, p. 19; Tiroler Speck, Regulation 1065/97, OJ 1997 L 156, p. 6; Regulation 1065/97, OJ 1997 L 156, p. 6; Vorarlberger Alpkäse, Regulation 1065/97, OJ 1997 L 156, p. 6; Vorarlberger Bergkäse, Regulation 1065/97, OJ 1997 L 156, p. 6; Waldviertler Graumohn, Regulation 1065/97, OJ 1997 L 156, p. 6, amended by OJ 2015 C 341, p. 24; Tiroler Almkäse/Tiroler Alpkäse, Regulation 2325/97, OJ 1997 L 322, p. 33; Gailtaler Speck, Regulation 1241/2002, OJ 2002 L 181, p. 4; Steirischer Kren, Regulation 1229/2008, OJ 2008 L 333, p. 3; Mostviertler Birnenmost, Regulation 237/2011, OJ 2011 L 66, p. 7.
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For better understanding: according to the certification rules of “IFS”, a certificate of the producer shall not be put on the packaging of the final product.
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See “Spanische Hofreitschule I” 4 Ob 82/95 and “Spanische Hofreitschule II” 17 Ob/11w – both refer to souvenir articles protected by a wordmark.
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Petsch, C., Meyenburg, M. (2017). Austria. In: Kobel, P., Këllezi, P., Kilpatrick, B. (eds) Antitrust in Pharmaceutical Markets & Geographical Rules of Origin. LIDC Contributions on Antitrust Law, Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55813-4_18
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