Statistics on activities associated with patents, trademarks, Office of Policy and International Affairs, Patent Trial and Appeal Board,and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
"Geographical indications can be viewed as a subset of trademarks. Geographical indications serve the same functions as trademarks, because like trademarks they are:
1)Source-identifiers
2)Guarantees of quality
3)Valuable business interests."
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