Research For Protection System For Geographical Indications Of Agricultural Products

As an intellectual property rights closely relates to agriculture, geographical indication's internal characters determine its economic and social values. It is the quality indicator of the products, relating to the interests of stakeholders involved in the market between economic and even relations between countries.In China's long historical, it has formed lots of agricultural resources which has special features, containing larger potential of geographical indications development and protection. In our 20 years of historical experience in the protection of geographical indications, some of them have made great contribution on the local economic development, such as Korla Fragrant Pear, Yangshan peach, and so on.As China's protection of geographical indications bringing benefits to agriculture and farmers, there is much disharmony and even conflict to the market practice. At present, the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce and General Administration of Quality and Technical Supervision jointly manage the geographical indications. The relationship between the departments has not made clear, the protection of power between the three properties also has not defined. We can say that the protection of geographical indications is in a state of confusion, resulting in the reduction of administrative efficiency, waste of resources. Therefore, how to choose appropriate protection system and to improve the current system is extremely necessary, and this is the purpose of this paper.First, this paper analyses the four major countries'protected mode, including the history of the protection and the characteristics of each system; This is followed by the analysis of the characteristics of China's agricultural resources and the protection of geographical indications products, of China's protection system and a review of history, making an evaluation of the current protection system, pointing out the problems of the existing protection system, also it is supplemented by Yangshan Peaches as an example of empirical analysis; Finally, on the selection of the system and construction, it studies some relevant factors to geographical indication protection system' building, such as economic interests, social organization and management, historical and cultural factors and so on. On the basis of study of these factors, combining with China's status and the protection of the experience of foreign policy , this paper makes it proposals.