1. Trade in intellectual property rights can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. In the narrow sense, trade in intellectual property rights refers to trade with intellectual property rights as the subject matter, mainly including intellectual property rights licensing, intellectual property rights transfer, etc., that is, between enterprises, economic organizations or individuals, the right to use intellectual property rights is sold to or purchased from each other under general commercial conditions.
2. Intellectual property trade in a broad sense refers to the trade of products (intellectual property products and knowledge products) containing intellectual property rights, especially high-tech products with high added value, such as integrated circuits, computer software, multimedia products, audio-visual products, audio-visual products and literary works.