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Intellectual Property Week 丨 Intellectual Property Class: Intellectual Property Knowledge

On the 21st World Intellectual Property Day ( April 26, 2021 ), the National Intellectual Property Committee decided to organize the National Intellectual Property Publicity Week (April 20 to 26) activities, in order to "fully strengthen the promotion of intellectual property protection and promote the construction of new development patterns." The school carried out intellectual property publicity activities, with everyone to learn intellectual property-related knowledge.

Copyright, trademarks, patents have gradually become an indivisible part of everyone, and let us learn the basics of intellectual property today.

What is intellectual property?

The term "intellectual property" is an emergence after the establishment of the World Intellectual Property Organization in 1967, also known as "the authority of knowledge", and refers to the markings in the achievements and business activities of its intellectual labor. Proprietary rights, usually the proprietary or exclusive ownership of the country given creators on their intelligence results in a certain period of time. Various intelligence creates such as inventions, design, literature, and artwork, as well as logos, names, images used in business, can be considered to be intellectual property ownership owned by a person or organization. Intellectual property is essentially an intangible property right. Its object is intelligent results or a knowledge product. It is an intangible property or a spiritual wealth that does not have a form of intelligence. The labor results created by creative intellectual labor. It is the same as the real estate, car, etc., is protected by national law, with value and use value, some major patents, well-known trademarks or works, and even higher than real estate.

Characteristics of intellectual property

1. The object has non-material. The object of the property is that there is a substance, and the object of intellectual property is a non-material work, inventions and goodwill.  

2. Specific proprietary (exclusive). Others may not implement the behavior of intellectual property rights without the permission or legal provisions of the IPP or the law. In other words, for the object of intellectual property, only the intellectual property is licensed or in the absence of a legal specified, others can use the use of infringement.

3. Time. The protection period of most intellectual property rights is limited, and once the defense specified by the law is not protected. For example, according to my country's "Patent Law", the effective period of invent patent rights is 20 years, and the effective period of utility model patent rights and design patents is decade, and all from the date of application.

4. Regional. Intellectual property is limited to domestic domains unless special provisions of international treaties, bilateral or multilateral agreements. Intellectual property is a statutory rights, and it is also a product of public policy, and it must be in accordance with legal compulsory provisions. The scope of rights and contents of their rights depends entirely on national laws. The provisions of the acquisition and protection of intellectual property rights are different, so the intellectual property rights of a country cannot be automatically protected in other countries. know


Types of Property Right of Intellectual Property

1. Patent. Patent rights refer to the provision of proprietary rights enjoys a patentee to a patentee to create a proprietary power covered within a statutory period, including inventions, utility model, and design. The invention refers to a new technical solution proposed for the product, method or its improvement; the utility model refers to the shape, construction, or a combination of a product, which is suitable for practical new technical solutions; the design is also known as industrial Product design refers to a new design for the shape, pattern, or combination thereof of the product and the combination of colors and shapes, and the pattern.  

2. Trademark. Trademarks are tags that are available for merchandise or services to distinguish between their merchandise or services, including text, graphics, letters, numbers, three-dimensional logos, color combinations, and sounds. . The role of trademarks is to distinguish between products or services at a certain external mark. It can be said that the business is the name of the company, and the trademark is the name of the product or service provided by the company. The common role of business names and trademarks is to provide customers with identification tags, guiding consumers' choices, expanding their market advantages, and serving corporate management and operating services. 

3. Copyright. Copyright is also called copyright, and it is a proprietary right to work and related objects in accordance with the law. Copyright includes works of works and posts. The authority of the work includes the title, signature, modification, and protective works. Copy property rights include replication rights, issuance rights, rent rights, exhibition rights, adaptation rights, translation rights, compiler rights, etc. When we took a photo, painted a picture, write an article, take a video, ownership of the work.