On The Legal Protection Of Olympic Intellectual Property Rights

Twenty-ninth Olympic Games in Beijing August 31, 2008 under the curtain of sunset, the International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge used to describe the unparalleled event in the Olympic Games, Beijing was awarded and successfully host the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games is the great rejuvenation of Chinese nation a major event in history, organizing and hosting the 2008 Olympic Games is a huge complex system engineering. With the Olympic movement in recent decades, the reform and development, intellectual property rights of Olympic Games, especially the operation of the Olympic logo to market the huge market value of the Olympic intellectual property become more prominent, the International Olympic Committee and national Olympic Games, city Olympic intellectual property rights through the development and market operation, to be translated into tangible assets, making it a huge main funding channel for the Olympic Games. Therefore, the law of the Olympic intellectual property protection to the Olympic Movement under the protection of the law and orderly development, has become a priority in our government before an important topic, in the face of existing legal protection of Olympic intellectual property rights related issues, Many questioned the voice of emerging as the Beijing to host a successful Olympic Games a great challenge. "The IOC global markets vice president of marketing agency Mei Ruidian Ms. Mary Mariam has admitted that when Beijing won the bid in congratulating the International Olympic Committee are most worried about is that their ten whether the interests of the global sponsors in China can be protected. She pointed out that legal protection of Olympic intellectual property rights can make it possible to host a successful Olympic Games in Beijing a huge challenge. "a challenge for the international community, our government made a solemn commitment to protect the Olympic intellectual property rights, not only to strictly abide by the "Olympic Charter" and "Olympic Games Host City Contract," the relevant provisions of the bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing shortly after the success of the Olympic Games host city Beijing on the rapid introduction of the "Beijing Olympic intellectual property protection provisions", the requirement in 2001 beginning on November 1 implementation. At the same time the State Council promulgated the law on the protection of Olympic intellectual property rights that administrative regulations, "Protection of Olympic Symbols" on April 1, 2002 implementation. Intellectual property rights of the general legislation, such as "Copyright Law", "Trademark Law", "Patent Law", "special flag Management Regulations" has the relevant legal provisions for the protection of Olympic intellectual property rights provide a legal basis to this country has formed the "Protection of Olympic Symbols" as the core and multi-level legal protection of Olympic intellectual property. Administrative enforcement of intellectual property rights, our current form of intellectual property, copyright administrative law enforcement departments as the main industry and commerce, customs and other multi-sectoral cooperation between the law enforcement team, in judicial practice has strengthened the Olympic intellectual property protection, for cases of infringement of Olympic intellectual property rights, the People's Court began hearing. This shows that China's legal protection o f O l y m p i c i n t e l l e c t u a l p r o p e r t y m a t u r e s .