What is the object of intellectual property law protection?

The object of intellectual property refers to the spiritual products created by people in the fields of science, technology and culture, that is, knowledge products. Knowledge products are objects of civil rights that coexist with material products (i.e. things in the sense of civil law). Intellectual property rights in China are generally divided into three categories: patents, copyrights, and finally trademarks.

legal ground

Article 5 of the Provisions of the Supreme People's Court on the Applicable Law in the Trial of Patent Dispute Cases.

A lawsuit brought for patent infringement shall be under the jurisdiction of the people's court in the place where the infringement occurred or the defendant's domicile. Infringement includes: the place of manufacture, use, promised sale, sale or import of the product accused of infringing the patent right of invention or utility model; The place where the patented method is used, and the place where the products directly obtained according to the patented method are used, promised to be sold, sold and imported; The place where the act of manufacturing, promising to sell, selling and importing the patented product of design takes place; Places where counterfeiting other people's patents is carried out. The place where the infringement result of the above-mentioned infringement occurs.