2. The differences are as follows:
(1) has different concepts:
A patent certificate is a patent certificate issued to a patent applicant by the patent administrative department of the State Council (i.e. China National Intellectual Property Administration) if the patent application has passed the examination and no reason for rejection has been found, and it meets the conditions for granting a patent right. This is a legal document.
Patent certificate is divided into invention patent certificate, utility model patent certificate and design patent certificate.
Copyright is an exception in intellectual property rights, because the acquisition of copyright does not need to be confirmed separately, which is also the principle of "automatic protection" that people often say. After the software is registered, the software copyright owner enjoys the rights of publication, developer status, use, license and remuneration.
(2) The protected objects are different:
Patents protect its novel hardware equipment and so on. And the copyright protects the work itself, and the software is the code.
(3) The protection time is different:
The invention patent protection is 20 years, the new appearance protection is 10 years, and the work is 50 years from the date of publication.