On Legal Protection Of Geographical Indications

Geographical indication is a particular kind of the intellectual property, which reflects the relationship between a particular geographical surroundings and a commodity, indicating a particular character and merit, which is of great importance to the producers and providers, to a country,even to the international community. The essay has made a systematical research on the geographical indication. The essay has four parts.The first part prescribes the definition, functions of geographical indications.According to TRIPs, geographical indications are indications which identify a good as originating in the territory of a Member, or a region or locality in that territory, where a given quality, reputation or other characteristic of the goods is essentially attributable to its geographical origin. Geographical indications helps to improve quality of goods, increase economic interest,this is why we must protect it.The second part discuss the concept of geographical indications. The essay made a research of the history of the concept of geographical indications. The concept of geographical indications comes from the concept of marks of origin and the concept of indications of source.In early international geographical indications is another name of marks of origin.But in TRIPs, geographical indications has a wider extension.As regard of agricultural industry of our country, the essay accept the concept of geographical indications in TRIPs. The difference among...