Patent law is the general name of legal norms that confirm the exclusive right of inventors (or their heirs) to their inventions, stipulate the acquisition and extinction of patent rights, the implementation and protection of patent rights, and the rights and obligations of other patentees.
Patent belongs to intellectual property. Intellectual property is a new type of civil right developed on the basis of traditional property rights, creditor's rights and personal rights. Compared with traditional civil rights, intellectual property rights have many outstanding characteristics. It is an intangible property right different from property ownership. The intangibility of the right object is the essential feature that distinguishes intellectual property from property ownership. The object of intellectual property, that is, knowledge products, is an intangible spiritual wealth, and the invisibility of the object is the essential attribute of intellectual property.