Patents protect ideas or content.

Legal subjectivity:

There are three ways to protect patent rights: negotiation, mediation and litigation. Only negotiation is attended by both the obligee and the infringer, and the other two ways are attended by the third party. If the patentee takes the initiative to file a lawsuit, the plaintiff shall pay a certain litigation fee when filing a lawsuit. If it fails to pay, the people's court has the right to refuse to accept it.

Legal objectivity:

The difference between patent protection and copyright protection is that the content of protection is different from the form of copyright law protection, and patent law protects creativity. Copyright law protects the source code of software, and the innovation of technical scheme, the core content of software, can be patented and protected by patent law. The combination of the two can make the software more fully protected. Copyright is automatically acquired under different protection conditions, and the time of acquisition is subject to the time of completion of development. Copyright is automatically obtained as soon as it is completed and protected by copyright law. No matter how the software source code is written, copyright/copyright is automatically obtained and protected by copyright law. A patent must meet the requirements of patent application and need to apply to the Patent Office. Whether to grant a patent right requires the approval of the Patent Office. The protection time is different. The protection period of the invention patent is 20 years, counting from the date of application. However, the protection is after applying for approval to obtain the patent right, and the patent examination procedure is complicated. It usually takes about 3 years from application to obtaining a patent certificate. The software copyright protection period is 50 years, and it is protected by copyright from the date of development. Software has been protected by copyright law before obtaining patent right. Applying for a patent does not affect its protection by copyright law. You have enough patience to wait for patent approval.