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beijing news (reporter liu huan) during the china international fair for trade in services 2024, the world geographical indication brand distribution service conference was held. mao jinsheng, a first-level inspector of the intellectual property protection department of the state intellectual property office, revealed at the meeting that by the end of august 2024, a total of 2,523 geographical indication products and geographical indication protection products had been recognized, 7,385 geographical indications had been registered as collective trademarks and certification trademarks, and more than 31,000 market entities used geographical indication special marks.

mao jinsheng said that in recent years, the country has deeply explored the connotation of geographical indication culture, established a geographical indication protection and cultural conference sharing mechanism, supported local areas to cultivate and develop characteristic industrial clusters according to local conditions, guided market players to enhance the added value of geographical standard products through deep processing and transformation, and promoted the development and growth of the geographical indication industry.

in addition, mao jinsheng also introduced that in recent years, my country has actively implemented the china-eu agreement on protection and cooperation of geographical indications and the regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement, promoted mutual recognition and mutual protection of geographical indications between china and europe, china and france, china and thailand, and strengthened exchanges and dialogues with the countries along the belt and road initiative, promoting the cross-border flow of geographical indication products on a larger scale, larger scale and higher quality. so far, through separate applications, mutual recognition pilots and collaborative mutual protection, a total of 110 geographical indications have been protected in the eu, and a total of 142 products from france, the united states, the eu and other countries and regions have been protected in my country.

mao jinsheng said that in the next step, the national intellectual property administration will promote the formation of an intellectual property system and mechanism with clear boundaries of power, reasonable division of labor, consistent responsibilities and powers, efficient operation, and legal protection; accelerate the establishment of a geographical indication protection system with chinese characteristics that is benchmarked against international standards; improve the geographical indication protection system; enhance the level of geographical indication protection; strengthen mutual recognition and protection of geographical indications; and vigorously develop a characteristic economy supported by geographical indications.

editor: tang zheng

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