The Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999 — back to Table of Contents
Section 24. Prohibition of assignment or transmission, etc.
Unlike a trade mark, a right to a registered geographical indication cannot be assigned, transmitted, licensed, pledged, mortgaged, or made subject to any similar arrangement — because it belongs to the community of producers connected to the place, not to an individual proprietor who can sell it off.
One exception exists: on the death of an authorised user, that person’s right in the registered geographical indication devolves on their legal successor under the ordinary law of succession.
