Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion

9:30 am

Photo of David StantonDavid Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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I will come back to Mr. O'Connor in the few minutes I have left. He indicated a clash between the trademark that is held by Fiskar and the GI patent, if you want to call it that, which he is looking at for Waterford. Could he delve into that a little bit further? It seems to me to be leading down to somewhere kind of like the four goldmines whereby there could be a lot of litigation around this. How can that be resolved in Mr. O'Connor's view?