Study On The Protection Of Agricultural Products Geographical Indications In Shaanxi Province

The right of geographical indications as a type of intellectual property rights,which is closely related to agricultural development.For our country’s agricultural nation, its importance is self-evident, and because of this, the protection of geographical indications of agricultural products increasingly brought to the attention of the governments at all levels.Shaanxi province has a lot of resources of geographical indications of agricultural products, its main focus on fruits, tea, Chinese prickly ash and Chinese herbal medicine.In order to develop the agricultural economy in shaanxi province, and promote agricultural products in Shaanxi Province on a more broad market areas, the protection of geographical indications of agricultural products has become one of the most effective means. However, due to our geographical indication protection started late, so far there are still many conflicts of legislation and the system defects, which will undoubtedly greatly hindered the development of geographical indication products.In addition, Shaanxi Province is located in the west of China, the public awareness of the protection of intellectual property rights are relatively weak, thus causing a party in government departments to vigorously promote the products of geographical indication registration, but the enterprise party is not willing to apply for the use of the corresponding geographical indications of the embarrassing situation, some production operators do things by irregular ways, counterfeit products of geographical indications and to ultra high priced sales, in the course of time, lost of geographical indication products consumers trust. Therefore, in order to better and more efficient protection and the development of geographical indications of agricultural products in Shaanxi Province, we need to proceed from the actual situation of Shaanxi Province, formulating development goals and planning reasonable, disassembling and analyzing the problems and difficulties in development, based on the advanced experience of geographical indications protection at home and abroad,including all the provisions of the law, system design, system of supervision and specific measures, to promote the development of geographical indication products in Shaanxi province to start the new situation and to a new level.