The Patent Law stipulates that the rules and methods of intellectual activities cannot be granted patent rights. Intellectual activities are a kind of spiritual thinking movement. It directly acts on human thinking and produces results through human thinking activities, or it must act on nature indirectly and produce effects through human thinking as a medium without using natural forces. Therefore, such activities do not have technical characteristics and do not belong to the inventions and creations mentioned in the patent law, so patent rights cannot be granted.
The characteristic of this type of rules and methods that guide human thinking activities is that they must be thought and judged by the human brain when used. It usually includes: instructions for using various equipment and instruments, teaching methods, sheet music, music, speed algorithms, formulas, grammar, computer language and calculation rules, dictionary arrangement methods, book classification rules, calendar arrangement rules and methods, psychology Inspection methods, tailoring methods, accounting methods, statistical methods, game rules and various forms, etc.