后TRIPS时代我国地理标志的涉外保护研究

Study on International Protection of China's Geographical Indications in Post TRIPS Era

地理标志作为知识产权的保护客体已被众多的知识产权国际公约所认同,地理标志的涉外保护以《巴黎公约》《TRIPS协议》等重要的国际公约为法理基础,是知识产权学界需要研究的一个重要课题。我国地理标志的涉外保护包括境外知名地理标志产品在华保护和我国地理标志产品的境外注册保护两个方面。地理标志的涉外保护对于促进产业规模的扩大、增强农产品国际竞争力、服务国家外交友好等方面有不可估量的价值。国际社会对地理标志的涉外保护围绕着贸易平衡和各成员方的利益追求一直存在争议和矛盾,作为地理标志大国的我国应当采取适当的策略最大限度地实现我国地理标志的价值。

Geographical indications,as objects of intellectual property rights,have been recognized by many of the international convention on intellectual property rights. Geographical indication protection takes foreign 'Paris Convention','TRIPS Agreement'and other important international convention as the legal basis,and it is an important subject of intellectual property scholars needed to be studied.Foreign protection of geographical indication in China includes overseas famous product of geographical indication protection in China and our products of geographical indication protection registered overseas. Foreign protection of geographical indication is of great important for promoting the expansion of industrial scale,enhancing the international competitiveness of agricultural products,the value of country's foreign services and so on. But foreign protection of international society of geographical indications on the trade balance and the members of the pursuit of interests has been controversial and contradictory,and China,as a geographical indication power,should take proper strategies to realize the maximum value of geographical indications in China.