Intellectual property rights are divided into which categories

Intellectual property rights can be divided into two main categories: one is copyright, including neighboring rights; and the other is industrial property rights, which mainly includes patent and trademark rights. The scope of industrial property rights is understood differently in different countries around the world, but according to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, "industrial property rights should be understood in the broadest sense, and should apply not only to industry and commerce as such, but also and equally to agriculture and extractive industries and to all manufactured or natural products." According to the General Principles of Civil Law, intellectual property rights in China include copyright (copyright), patent rights, exclusive trademark rights, discovery rights, invention rights and rights to other scientific and technological achievements. Among them, the first three types of rights constitute the main body of intellectual property rights in China, and these three types of intellectual property rights are also the main ones in construction engineering activities. Most of the intellectual property rights are required by the inventor or creator to apply for registration, the law and the state organs will protect it, but one of the copyright does not need to be approved by the state organs to enjoy the registration of copyright, the copyright holder's personal right of authorship generally can not be transferred, but the right of authorship property is transferable.

Intellectual property rights (IPRs), which refer to "the exclusive rights of the right holders to the fruits of their intellectual labor," are generally valid for a limited period of time. Various intellectual creations such as inventions, literary and artistic works, as well as logos, names, images, and designs used in commerce can be considered as intellectual property owned by a particular person or organization. According to this regulation, intellectual property rights can be divided into two main categories. The first category is based on the protection of human intellectual creative activities in various aspects of culture and industry, including copyright and invention rights; the second category is based on the protection of identifying signs in industrial activities, including trademark rights and trade name rights. The first category can be further divided into copyright, which is mainly for the protection and promotion of spiritual culture, and patent, which is mainly for the protection and promotion of material culture. In practice, however, before the above Convention, the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of 1883 had already provided for "industrial property rights", stating that industrial property rights are protected by patents, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, service marks, trade names, indications of origin or appellations of origin, and the suppression of unfair competition. unfair competition. Therefore, intellectual property rights are generally divided into two categories: copyright and industrial property rights, and under industrial property rights, there are patent rights, trademark rights and trade name rights. This division is also reasonable. Industrial property is related to the "industry", otherwise there is no copyright. Now, due to the progress of science and technology, the product of human intelligence should be protected by law is increasing, the scope of intellectual property rights are gradually expanding. For example, the protected object has increased the layout design, computer software, proprietary technology, integrated circuits and so on, and is still increasing. So intellectual property rights is now a still expanding, a category of rights in general.