On The Deficiency And Improvement Of The Legal Protection Of Geographical Indications In China

Geographical indications are commercial marks of an intellectual property nature and have important economic and commercial value. Geographical indications are used to indicate the quality, reputation, or other characteristics of a product that are closely linked to a particular geographical environment or human factor. With the continuous development of economic globalization, a growing number of geographical indications products will go to the international market, geographical indications through a substantial increase in international trade in the export share of trade to promote national economic development. International conventions and laws of various countries have different degrees of protection of their geographical indications, the formation of various forms of legal protection of geographical indications system. At present, the protection of geographical indications in China mainly adopts the protection of trademark law and the special protection of geographical indications and the protection of other laws and regulations. The protection of geographical indications has achieved certain effects, but the coexistence of different protection methods Resulting in a lot of disadvantages, different departments of the implementation of protection of geographical indications conflict, greatly reducing the efficiency of legal protection of geographical indications. It is very important and urgent to strengthen and improve the legal protection of geographical indications from the legislative and the implementation level because of the asymmetry of the importance of geographical indications and the imperfect legal protection of geographical indications in China.This paper is divided into four parts, which are the connotation, legal nature and value meaning of geographical indications, the international legal protection of geographical indications, the present situation and shortcomings of legal protection of geographical indications, perfecting the legal protection of geographical indications. Opinions and suggestions.In the first part, the author analyzes the connotation and characteristics of geographical indications, and distinguishes them with the concepts of source mark, place of origin and trademark, and then discusses the significance of the protection of geographical indications.The second part introduces the legal protection of geographical indications in international conventions and European legislation.The third part introduces the current situation, shortcomings and reasons of legal protection of geographical indications in China.The fourth part puts forward some suggestions on perfecting the legal protection of geographical indications in our country. On the one hand, it is necessary to establish a system of protection for the protection of geographical indications and to establish a strict supervision system to ensure that the legal system is put in place at the implementation level.