Research On The Legal Protection Of Geographical Indication

The protection of Geographical Indication is an important content of the legal system of Intellectual Property, which has the characters of distrimination,directive,relevance,property and untransferable. Many international conventions have made enactments especially for it such as Paris Convention, Madrid Agreement for the Repression of False or Deceptive Indications of Source on Goods, the Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration, WIPO Model Law for Developing Countries on Appellations of Origin and Indications of Source and TRIPS. The protection of the Geographical Indication all over the world generally contains three main types: trademark law protection, special legislation protection and anti-unfair competition law protection . Nowadays, the protection of Geographical Indication in China is mainly fulfilled by the Trademark Law and the Regulation Concerning the Protection of the Original Region Goods enacted by the late National Bureau for Supervising the Quality...