What is the relationship between intellectual property, patent right, copyright and trademark right?
Intellectual property rights include patents, trademarks and copyrights. Patent right is a kind of intellectual property right, which is the exclusive right of the inventor or his assignee to exploit a specific invention within a certain period of time. It can be divided into invention patents, utility model patents and design patents. The competent authority of patent right is the Patent Office. Trademark right is the abbreviation of exclusive right to use a trademark, which means that the trademark authority grants the trademark owner the exclusive right to protect his registered trademark with national laws according to law. A trademark is a commercial symbol used to distinguish goods and services from different sources. It consists of words, graphics, letters, numbers, three-dimensional symbols, color combinations, sounds or the combination of the above elements. The competent authority of trademark right is the Trademark Office. The object of copyright is a work, which refers to an intellectual achievement that is original in the fields of literature, art and science and can be copied in some tangible form.