ANALYSIS OF THE POSSIBILITY OF OBTAINING A GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATION REGISTRATION FOR RENDA DE ABROLHOS IN CORONEL XAVIER CHAVES - MG.
Geographical Indication. Renda de Abrolhos. Coronel Xavier Chaves
Geographical Indication (GI) is one of the forms of protection, within the scope of industrial property, for products or services that originate from a certain location, and can occur in two different ways: Designation of Origin (DO) or Indication of Origin (IP ). The municipality of Coronel Xavier Chaves, located in the state of Minas Gerais, has an association of handicraft women who have been producing Renda de Abrolhos since 1983, with the purpose of generating income, valuing the participants and preserving the tradition and way of doing this. In this context, the goal of this work was to analyze the possibility of obtaining GI registration with the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), for Renda de Abrolhos in the municipality of Coronel Xavier Chaves, considering some requirements of current legislation. To this end, research was carried out within a qualitative approach, of an applied nature, using bibliographical and documentary research and action research as technical and methodological procedures. The objectives, classified as descriptive and exploratory, and the data were treated considering content analysis. The potential for meeting some of the legislation's requirements was analyzed by surveying the historical context of the formation of the crafts' productive structure, identifying the production process and its particularities, gathering documents to prove the notoriety of the geographical name, and the identification and delimitation of the geographical production area. A proposal for a draft Technical Specifications Booklet for the IG and another for graphic representation were presented. As for the results, the studies carried out managed to achieve their objectives and indicated evidence that there is, indeed, the possibility of requesting GI registration with the INPI, in the IP type, for Renda de Abrolhos in the municipality of Coronel Xavier Chaves, considering the main requirements of current legislation that were analyzed.