Electricity belongs to things, which can be dominated by manpower, with or without fixed forms, such as electricity and chemical gases. However, intellectual achievements are not things, but spiritual products, such as works, discoveries, inventions and designs. So electricity is not an intellectual achievement.
Types of intellectual achievements:
(1) project
Refers to the intellectual creation achievements that are original and can be copied in some form in the fields of literature, art and science.
(2) Invention
Refers to the new technical scheme proposed for products, methods or their improvement. Invention is one of the objects of patent right. Both product inventions and method inventions need to be granted patent rights.
(3) utility model
The utility model refers to a new technical scheme for the shape, structure and combination of products, commonly known as "small inventions".
(4) Design
Appearance design refers to a new design that is aesthetically pleasing and suitable for industrial application for the shape, pattern, color or their combination of products.
(5) scientific discovery
Scientific discovery refers to a new understanding put forward by clarifying the phenomena, characteristics or laws of the objective material world. The so-called phenomenon refers to the expression or exposure of the essence of things; Characteristics are the qualitative characteristics of differences between things; Law is the inherent and inevitable connection of things.
(6) Trademarks
A trademark refers to a sign that is placed on one side of a commodity or on the packaging of a commodity and has obvious words, graphics or a combination of the two.