The Study On Intellectual Property Protection On Conventions And Exhibitions

With China 's renewed efforts in supporting the modern service industry, We have been seeing a rapid development of expo economy and a continuous increase in its proportion in the service industry. Most countries and regions around the world have been attaching more and more importance to it. However, as intensive gather places of new technologies and products, there emerge more and more problems of intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection no matter exhibitions themselves or trademarks, patents and copyrights of participants are exposed to infringements. On one hand, rightowners worry that their new technologies or products may be infringed by others at exhibitions, and then, the infringers may showcase them at the same exhibitions with aggressive prices; on the other, participants also worry that they may be cornered by iprs complaints all in a sudden and be deemed as infringers before they launch any countermeasures. In that case, their exhibitions may come to a halt. the iprs protection in expos and exhibitions will not only directly influence the healthy development of expo industry, but also indicate how much importance has been attached to IPRs in a region. To give a systemic research to IPRs protection in exhibitions and in turn work out a feasible solution to the country's IPRs protection practices in exhibitions, the essay integrates the research methods of multi-subjects, such as legislature, administration, IPRs and exhibition economy while makes case studies in the fields of justice, administration and self-discipline of exhibition. the study analyzes the status-quo, the existing problems and their causes of iprs protection in expos and exhibitions. Specifically, the essay does a comparative analysis to the country's present laws on IPRs protection of exhibitions against the background of the third amendment to the Paten Law. on this basis, the study takes in account of successful examples of some other countries and regions, such as Germany, Italy, Switzerland and HongKong, and puts forward some countermeasures and suggestions to improve our iprs protection from the aspects of justice, administration and self-discipline of exhibitions, making suggestions on further legislations.