Do you have intellectual property rights if you don't apply for patents for the results of independent research and development?

Patent is a kind of monopoly right, and the technological achievements independently developed will not be recognized and protected by law if they do not apply for patents. When others misappropriate their research results, the legal responsibility of the embezzler cannot be investigated, because the developer has no patent right to the results and cannot be protected by law. At the same time, in our country, the patent application takes the principle of prior application, and the patent will be awarded to the first invention with creativity, novelty and practicality. Therefore, if the developer did not apply in time, but someone else applied first and was granted the patent right, the developer could not pursue the legal responsibility of others. There are countless such cases in China.