Dairy groups praise diplomatic struggle against additional restrictions on common food names
With many processors relying on the use of many generic cheese names, the dairy industry was quick to applaud US representatives for holding a key international meeting discussing the fight against treaty changes that could impair the ability of companies worldwide to use generic food names in export markets.
The National Milk Producers Federation, the US Dairy Export Council and the International Dairy Foods Association jointly thanked the US delegation to the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Diplomatic Conference on the Lisbon Agreement for calling attention to the treaty changes, IDFA announced. The organizations also praised the diplomats for leading a coalition of countries in criticizing the lack of an inclusive WIPO process as well as the negative costs the agreement will likely impose on taxpayers, farmers and companies in other countries.