What are the patent categories in Britain?

1. What are the categories of British patents? Intellectual property refers to the exclusive rights enjoyed by citizens or legal persons in intellectual creation or innovation activities according to law, also known as "intellectual achievement right" and "intangible property right", which mainly includes industrial property rights composed of invention patents, trademarks and industrial designs, as well as copyrights (copyrights) composed of works such as natural science, social science, literature, music, drama, painting, sculpture, photography and movies. There are broad and narrow classifications of intellectual property rights, and international law and domestic law are the basis of classification. Intellectual property in a broad sense can include all the achievements of human intellectual creation, that is, the scope defined by WIPO, but the content of protection is established by domestic law. For example, the right of discovery. According to the standards of Tokyo International Conference for the Protection of Industrial Property 1992, intellectual property in a broad sense can be divided into two categories: the right of creative achievements and the right of identification and marking. The former includes invention patent right, integrated circuit right, new plant variety right, proprietary technology right, industrial product design right, copyright, software right and so on. The latter includes trademark right, trade name right and other identification mark rights related to stopping unfair competition. Of course, identification signs also permeate intellectual creation, but their functions and forms of expression are different. Intellectual property in a narrow sense refers to industrial property and copyright. This book takes the legal basis of rights as the standard of division. According to the classification of domestic laws, according to Articles 94 ~ 97 in Section 3 of Chapter V of the General Principles of Civil Law, intellectual property rights include: copyright (or copyright) (Article 94), patent right (Article 95), exclusive right to use trademarks (Article 96), right to discovery, invention and other scientific and technological achievements (Article 97). Because discovery itself cannot be directly applied to industrial and agricultural production, that is, it has no property nature, many countries do not protect it as copyright and related intellectual property rights. The traditional categories of intellectual property in China are industrial property and copyright. Industrial property rights include patent right, trademark exclusive right and the right to prohibit unfair competition. As a movable property, industrial property has the meaning of enterprise property. But it is also a kind of intellectual property with the significance of knowledge form. Industry should be understood in a broad sense, and industry itself includes all industrial sectors, such as agriculture, industry, extractive industries and commerce. Copyright, patent right and trademark exclusive right are called the three pillars of intellectual property rights. Geographical indications, traditional knowledge, biodiversity and other related intellectual property rights need to be protected by domestic laws. 2. The preliminary examination of an application for a patent for invention mainly examines the following contents: (1) Whether the patent application contains an application for a patent for invention as stipulated in the Patent Law, whether these documents (including the request, the specification and its drawings, the patent claim and the abstract of the specification) obviously do not meet the writing requirements of the detailed rules for the implementation of the Patent Law, and whether their writing format and signature conform to the provisions of the detailed rules for the implementation of the Patent Law; (2) Whether the patent application obviously violates national laws, public interests or social morality, or falls within the scope of not granting patent rights as stipulated by patent laws and regulations; (3) Whether the subject of patent application does not meet the applicant qualification stipulated in the Patent Law; (4) Whether the patent application obviously does not meet the requirements of singularity stipulated in the Patent Law; (5) Whether the modification of the patent application documents conforms to the provisions of the Patent Law. In terms of patents, the standards set by each country are different, because after all, the national conditions of each country are also very different. Of course, there are two types of standards for classifying intellectual property rights in China, one is broad and the other is narrow, so international law and its domestic law are the basis for its formulation.