Intellectual Property Protection On Guangdong Herbal Tea

As our country pay more and more to the protection of the tradition knowledge's intellectual property, the Guangdong Herbal Tea, one of the tradition knowledge, has been more widespread concern. In the beverage market, Guangdong herbal tea occupies a large proportion, in some places, even as more as the Coca-Cola sales. Plus 2006, the Guangdong herbal tea successfully applied to become the first batch of national non-material cultural heritage, the Guangdong herbal tea intellectual property protection become more realistic and urgent. So, to effectively protect the traditional knowledge of Guangdong herbal tea is equal to protect the a way to keep healthy, keep the competitive strength in the fierce competition market, finally become a pillar of Guangdong's industry.The purpose of this paper is to discuss the protection of intellectual property rights in Guangdong herbal tea existing problems, and try to find out the solution of these problems. From analysis of the Guangdong herbal tea's history, classification, and function first, then revealing the reasons for the protection and conservation value. After investigate the Guangdong herbal tea existing system of laws and national policies protection status, make a deep investigation of features and shortcomings by using the "Patent Law," "Trademark Law," "Anti-Unfair Competition Law," and other related government policy. Especially analyses the Guangdong herbal tea's qualification of the patent application. And then according to the foreign models of protect the traditional knowledge; find out the points we can reference. And then make a few suggestions base on the actual situation. Through the protection of Guangdong herbal tea intellectual property, we can certainly as the value of traditional knowledge. and its protect significance. Finally speed up the modernization and industrialization, and ultimately spread across the country and even other countries.