Geographical indication products refer to products produced in a specific region, whose quality, reputation or other characteristics essentially depend on the natural and human factors of the place of origin, and which are named with geographical names after review and approval. .
Chinese name
Geographic indication product
Foreign name
CGIIA
Issuing unit
< p>State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and QuarantineIssue date
2005-06-07
Issue number
No. 78< /p>
Geographic indications - The World Trade Organization defines geographical indications in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights as: Geographical indications identify originating in the territory of a member state or an area or a place in that territory. Marking of a product, but the quality, reputation or other defining characteristics of the marked product shall be primarily determined by its place of origin. Therefore, geographical indications are mainly used to identify the origin of a certain product, which is the origin indication of the product. Geographical indications are also a type of intellectual property.
Geographical indication products - refer to products produced in a specific region, whose quality, reputation or other characteristics essentially depend on the natural and human factors of the place of origin, and are named with geographical names after review and approval. product.
National geographical indication protected products - refer to products produced in a specific region, with quality, reputation or other characteristics essentially depending on the natural factors and human factors of the place of origin, and with geographical names upon review and approval. Named products and protected by regional patents.
Products protected by geographical indications include: first, planting and breeding products from the region; second, products whose raw materials come from the region and are produced and processed in the region according to specific techniques.
Special protection of geographical indications - refers to signs that identify a product originating from a certain region or place within the territory of a member. The specific quality, reputation or other characteristics of the product are mainly attributable to its geographical origin. It is necessary to provide special protection for such geographical indication products. Nearly a thousand geographical indication products in China have received special protection.
Geographic indication certification mark - controlled by an organization with the ability to detect and supervise certain goods or services, and used by people other than it on goods or services to certify the origin of the goods or services , raw materials, manufacturing methods, quality, precision or other specific qualities