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Abstract
The contemporary judicial protection of registered indication of geographic
origin in the Republic of Serbia is regulated allroundly. It means that authorised
user of registered indication of geographic origin may be protected in civil,
criminal and even special administrative court procedure. This arouses from our
country orientation to join to WTO and EU for which one of conditions is to
provide protection of intellectual property rights in accordance to mundane and
European standards. Upon the last several years in Serbia is adopted more legal
prescriptions by which the judicial protection of intellectual property rights is
regulated on a proper way. The judicial protection of registered indications of
geographic origin is a just a segment of mentioned regulatory process.
In this paper authors deal with judicial protection from unauthorised
commercial use of registered indication of geographic origin, which is noticeably
wider than civil court protection, pointing critically on some inopportune legal
solutions regarding criminal and administrative protection as well as on
unsustainable legal solutions on civil court procedure which differentiate from
general rules of civil law. As for civil law protection of registered indication of
geographic origin authors propose its amendment and improvement.