(1) Intangible property right.
(2) Confirmation or award must be directly stipulated by special national legislation.
(3) Duality: both the nature of some personal rights (such as the right to sign) and the content of property rights. But the trademark right is an exception, it only protects property rights, not personal rights.
(4) Appropriateness: Intellectual property belongs exclusively to the subject of rights. Without the consent of the creditor or special provisions of the law, no one except the creditor may enjoy or use this right.
(5) Regionality: Intellectual property rights recognized and protected by a country's laws have legal effect only within the country.
(6) Timeliness: the law stipulates a certain period of protection for intellectual property rights, and intellectual property rights are valid within the statutory period.
Traditional intellectual property categories in China;
Intellectual property in the traditional sense of our country is divided into industrial property and copyright. Industrial property rights include patent right, trademark exclusive right and the right to prohibit unfair competition. As a kind of movable property, industrial property has the meaning of enterprise property. But it is also a kind of intellectual property with the significance of knowledge form.
Industry should be understood in a broad sense, and industry itself includes all industrial sectors, such as agriculture, industry, extractive industries and commerce. Copyright, patent right and trademark exclusive right are called the three pillars of intellectual property rights. Geographical indications, traditional knowledge, biodiversity and other related intellectual property rights need to be protected by domestic laws.