In an effort to ensure the protection of the new city spring tea geographical signs in 2025, to increase the protection of intellectual property rights, and to improve the regulatory market protection system for intellectual property protection in the north-west international tea city, the new city market monitoring authority recently launched a special inspection on the protection of “spring tea” geographical indications in the north-west international tea town in conjunction with the city of xi'an intellectual property protection centre。
The purpose of this special inspection is to regulate the business order of the spring tea market, to raise awareness of the geographical indications and protection products of operators and to promote the development of the tea culture in the new urban areas. Emphasis is placed on carrying out detailed checks of offences such as unauthorized use or falsification of geographical indications and their names, the use of geographical indications for product names that do not meet the requirements of geographical indications standards and regulatory norms, the use of misleading names or signs that are close to the geographical indications, the use of misunderstandings, and the use of written or pattern signs that may mislead consumers, as well as violations of the right of geographical indications to register trademarks。
At the end of the inspection, talks were held at the city of sian intellectual property protection centre, the new city markets regulatory authority and the northwestern international tea city. The centre for intellectual property protection of the city of xi'an has organized the development of a standardized market for intellectual property rights in the north-west international tea city against national standards for the regulation of the market for intellectual property protection, has urged the market to improve its regulatory system and related materials, and has provided guidance on the direction of the market. The new city market regulatory authority has made detailed presentations on the market in terms of law enforcement regulation, dispute management, institution-building, etc., and has made specific requests for market management methods。
As a next step, the new city market supervisory authority will continue to deepen its cooperation with the western city intellectual property protection centre, increase its efforts to foster a standardized market for intellectual property protection at the national level in the north-west international tea city, and turn the market into a market for the culture of tea trading with model labels。
