Analysis of the Current Situation of China's Geographical Indication Protection System and the Suggestions for Improvement
[Purposes]This paper aims to further improve China's geographical indication protection sys-tem,give full play to the key role of geographical indications in promoting the development of characteris-tic economy and helping rural revitalization.[Methods]By analyzing of the application subject,accep-tance channels,review standards,regulatory protection,infringement relief mechanism and other aspects of the system of geographical indications,this paper puts forward targeted suggestions for improvement.[Findings]Under the parallel mode of trademark protection and special protection,there exists problems in China's geographical indication protection system,such as overlapping protection management,unrea-sonable evaluation index setting,imperfect supervision and punishment mechanism,and unclear scope of reasonable use of"specific geographical names",which should be improved by legislation.[Conclu-sions]It is suggested to formulate a special law on the protection of geographical indications and estab-lish a unified national geographical indication certification system to improve the protection system for geographical indications.At the same time,we should pay attention to strengthen the connection with the current legal system,set up a scientific evaluation index system,and promote the development of re-gional public brands and geographical indications
protection of geographical indicationtrademark lawspecial legislation