It should be protected by applying for a patent. If someone steals your achievements and then applies for a patent, then your property rights will be occupied by others. So if you want to own your own property rights, you'd better protect them through legal procedures.
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, industrial designs, and copyrights (copyrights) composed of works such as natural science, social science, literature, music, drama, painting, sculpture, photography and movies.
Intellectual property is an intangible property right, which refers to the results of intellectual creative labor and the rights enjoyed by intellectual workers according to law.
Such rights are called personal rights and property rights, as well as moral rights and economic rights. The so-called personal right means that the right is inseparable from the person who has made intellectual achievements, and it is a legal reflection of personal relationship. For example, the author's right to sign a work, or the right to publish or modify a work. , is a spiritual right; The so-called property right refers to the right that the obligee can use these intellectual achievements to get remuneration or rewards after they are recognized by law. This right is also called economic right.
The object of intellectual property is the human mind, and the creation of human intelligence belongs to the "intellectual achievement right", which refers to the right enjoyed by spiritual wealth created by all intellectual activities in the fields of science, technology, culture and art according to law.