The scale of my country's geographical indication industry has further expanded

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 12 (Reporter Song Chen and Wang Linlin) Hu Wenhui, deputy director of the National Intellectual Property Office, introduced at a press conference held on the 12th that as of the end of June 2022, my country has approved a total of 2493 geographical indications products. Essence The approved geographical indication is 6,927 registered as a collective trademark and certification trademark. Approved the use of geographical indicators for 19,350 market entities. The scale of the geographical indication industry has further expanded.

Approval reform of the use of geographical indicators is an important measure for my country's reform of "decentralization" reform in the field of intellectual property. Zhang Zhicheng, director of the Intellectual Property Protection Department of the State Intellectual Property Office, introduced that this reform is mainly to put the work permissions approved by the dedicated sign to the provincial -level intellectual property management department. Management department management is more direct.

At present, the use of approval reform of the special indication of the geographical indicator has carried out two batches of pilots, and the second batch of reform pilots have just started not long ago. Zhang Zhicheng introduced that the pilot place increased from the 12 provinces of the first batch of pilots to 20 provinces, which involved the number of geographical signs to protect the number of products from 1,218 to 1951, accounting for a total of 51.8%to 82.9%.

"This reform pilot further optimizes the approval procedure, reduce approval links, streamlines the application materials, and reduce the approval cycle. Say.

[Editor in charge: Xue Tao]

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