What are the three major parts of intellectual property?

Intellectual property rights include copyright, patent right and trademark right. Intellectual property, also known as "ownership of knowledge", refers to "the property rights enjoyed by the obligee on the fruits created by his intellectual labor", which is generally valid only for a limited period of time. All kinds of intellectual creations, such as inventions, literary and artistic works, and signs, names, images and designs used in business, can be regarded as intellectual property rights owned by a certain person or organization.

(1) patent right

1. Definition of patent right: A patent right is the right granted to an inventor or unit to monopolize, use and dispose of an invention-creation achievement according to law.

2. The subject of patent right: the person who has the right to file a patent application and patent right and undertake corresponding obligations, including natural persons and legal persons.

3. Objects of patent right: inventions, utility models and designs.

4. The rights of the patentee: the exclusive right to use, the right to license, the right to transfer, the right to give up and the right to mark.

5. Obligations of the patentee: the obligation to exploit the patent and the obligation to pay the annual fee.

(2) Trademark right

1. Definition of trademark right: A trademark is a mark specially designed and consciously placed on the surface of a commodity or its packaging to help people distinguish different commodities. Trademark right refers to the exclusive right to use a trademark enjoyed by the trademark user according to law.

2. Subject of trademark right: the legal person or natural person who applied for and obtained the trademark right.

3. The object of trademark right: a trademark protected by the Trademark Law is a registered trademark, including a commodity trademark and a service trademark, after being approved and registered by the State Trademark Office.

4. Rights of trademark owners: right to use, right to prohibit, right to transfer and right to license.

5. Obligation of the trademark owner: guarantee the quality of the goods using the trademark, and have the obligation to pay the prescribed fees.

(3) Copyright

1. Definition of copyright: Copyright, also known as copyright, is the exclusive right enjoyed by citizens, legal persons or unincorporated units for their own literary, artistic, natural science and engineering technical works according to law.

2. Subject of copyright: refers to the copyright owner, that is, the copyright owner. Including authors, successors of copyright, legal persons or unincorporated units and countries.

3. The object of copyright refers to various works protected by copyright. Works that can enjoy copyright protection involve literary, artistic and scientific works, which are intellectual achievements created by the author and fixed in some form and can be copied.

4. Personal rights and property rights. Personal rights include the right to publish, the right to sign, the right to modify and the right to protect the integrity of works. Property rights include the right to use and the right to receive remuneration.

Now there is a new form of intellectual property: the domain name is the character address of the Internet host, which can be converted into the physical address of a specific host in the Internet. There are two address schemes in the Internet: IP address system and domain name address system, and the two address systems are actually one-to-one correspondence. As an intellectual property right, domain name has legal characteristics: identification, uniqueness and exclusiveness; However, as a new form of intellectual property, its effective protection means need to be continuously studied and improved.

Legal basis:

Patent Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) Article 1 This Law is formulated for the purpose of protecting the legitimate rights and interests of patentees, encouraging inventions and creations, promoting the application of inventions and creations, improving innovation ability, and promoting scientific and technological progress and economic and social development.

People's Republic of China (PRC) Trademark Law Article 1 This Law is formulated with a view to strengthening trademark administration, protecting the exclusive right to use trademarks, urging producers and operators to ensure the quality of goods and services, maintaining the reputation of trademarks, protecting the interests of consumers and producers and operators, and promoting the development of the socialist market economy.

Copyright Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) Article 1 This Law is formulated in accordance with the Constitution for the purpose of protecting the copyright of authors of literary, artistic and scientific works and their rights and interests related to copyright, encouraging the creation and dissemination of works beneficial to the construction of socialist spiritual civilization and material civilization, and promoting the development and prosperity of socialist culture and science.