Applications and Responses to RCEP Rules on Geographical Indications Protection in China

Abstract

Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) uses the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules as parent rules. Yet proble ms exist in the interpretation and application of intellectual property terms, which can easily cause controversy. The protection rules of the geographical indications (GI) are used as a magic weapon to promote Chinese high-quality agriculturalproducts to the world. But due to the left and right swaying of the legislators, they are chaotic and thus need to be improved urgently. In this case, China’s GI protection should focus on disputed solutions, balancing legislators’ initiatives and autonomy generated by geographical indication, and solving the historical problems of many departments overlapping management.