Appellation d'origine contrôlée there are often conflicts between trademarks and geographical indications. For instance, in Canada, only Canadian wines can be VQA approved but other certification trademarks can be registered under the intellectual property legal regime. The owner of a certification trademark is then allowed to sell licences to be used for certain products meeting the owner's criteria. Thus in the case of wines, one AOC certification trademark is owned by the French Republic, while another is owned by "Maison des Futailles", a wine producer, of which the publicly owned Société des alcools du Québec is a partner. Appellation d'origine contrôlée The appellation
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