Recently, more than 50 hot and spicy soup shops in Xiaoyao Town, Zhoukou City, Henan Province have received summons from the court. They have all been sued by the local Xiaoyao Town Hot and Spicy Soup Association. The reason is that these shops use The name of the hot spicy soup store in Xiaoyao Town has been infringed, which makes many business owners who have been in business for decades feel incredible. After going to the relevant departments to inquire, the bosses of these defendants learned the whole story. It turned out that the three words "Xiaoyao Town" had been registered as a trademark, which resulted in the store owners using this name having to pay compensation to the trademark holder.

After this incident occurred, it attracted a lot of attention on the Internet. Many netizens said that this matter was too outrageous. The Xiaoyao Town Hu Hot Soup Association used this to create a monopoly and blackmail these shop owners. . After negotiating with the Xiaoyao Town Hot and Spicy Soup Association, many defendant bosses learned how to handle the matter. If they go to court with the Xiaoyao Town Hot and Spicy Soup Association, they will have to pay compensation of 30,000 to 50,000 yuan. If these business owners want to choose They will be compensated 5,000 yuan if they get it private. The best way to deal with it is to join their association and pay a membership fee of 1,000 yuan every year. This way of handling it made all the merchants who opened stores in Xiaoyao Town understand what was going on. Everyone was angry. I felt helpless again. What the Xiaoyao Town Hu Spicy Soup Association did was very inappropriate and was condemned by many media. Some media publicly criticized them for doing something that was not conducive to the promotion of local food.

The behavior of the Xiaoyao Town Hu Hot Soup Association is a disguised monopoly. They registered the three words of Xiaoyao Town first and asked all the bosses who use these three words to open stores to pay them. This is obviously a speculative and wrong move. Before the word "Xiaoyao Town" became a trademark, first of all, it was a place name, an area with delicious food. It is understandable that the boss here uses it as a prefix when opening a shop. However, the Xiaoyao Town Hot Spicy Soup Association is clever enough to seek benefits from it. This is very It is inappropriate and bad practice. Their behavior also takes advantage of legal loopholes. Just imagine if they win the lawsuit, it will definitely have a very bad social impact.

At that time, delicacies from various regions will be trademarked in advance and people will make ill-gotten gains. For example, someone in Shaxian County has registered a trademark with the word Shaxian. Does that mean Shaxian snacks are considered infringement? This kind of thing is a speculative and wrong behavior and is not worthy of promotion and learning. Xiaoyao Town Hot and Spicy Soup is one of the particularly famous regional delicacies in Henan. It took decades of promotion for the taste of the Hot and Spicy Soup here to be recognized and loved by the outside world. If the Xiaoyao Town Hot and Spicy Soup Association succeeds this time, it will definitely It will have a very negative impact on the regional cuisine and is not conducive to the national spread of regional cuisine.