Intellectual property rights, also known as "intellectual property rights", refer to "the property rights enjoyed by the obligee on the fruits of intellectual labor created by him", which are generally valid only for a limited period of time. All kinds of intellectual creations, such as inventions, literary and artistic works, and signs, names, images and designs used in business, can be regarded as intellectual property rights owned by a certain person or organization.
Although you don't need to provide products to apply for a patent, you must write relevant application documents; Copyright protects the expression of ideas, not the ideas themselves.
How to get protection:
I. Patent Protection
There are three kinds of patents: invention patents, utility model patents and design patents. The patent rights enjoyed by the patentee mainly include the right to manufacture, the right to use, the right to sell, the right to sell, the right to import, the right to transfer and the right to license. Patent right also includes prohibition right, waiver right and marking right. The protection period of invention patent is 20 years, and the protection period of utility model and design is 10 year.
Second, trademark protection.
The Trademark Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates that commodity trademarks, service trademarks, collective trademarks and certification trademarks can apply for registration in China and obtain the exclusive right to use trademarks. Trademark logo can be text, graphics or their combination.
Commodity trademarks refer to trademarks used in the production, manufacture, processing, selection and distribution of commodities.
Service trademark refers to the trademark used by service providers to distinguish their services from those provided by others.
A collective trademark refers to a trademark used by members of industrial and commercial organizations, associations or other collective organizations on goods or services, indicating that the operators or service providers of goods belong to the same organization, so as to distinguish the goods or services provided by non-members.
A certification trademark refers to a trademark that is controlled by an administrative organ, an organization or an organization designated by it with control and testing capabilities and used by others on goods or services to prove the origin, main raw materials, manufacturing methods, quality, accuracy and other specific qualities of goods.
The trademark protection period is 10 year, during which there is no charge.
Third, copyright protection.
The protection of copyright mainly includes the basic principles of copyright, the subject protection of copyright, the object protection of copyright, the content of copyright protection, the duration of copyright protection and the relevant legal responsibilities of infringement.