How many years is the term of the patent right for appearance?

Legal analysis: the validity period of design patent is 10 year. In this 10 year, a certain annual fee must be paid to maintain the validity of the patent right. The term of patent right refers to the legal term and termination time of patent right. If the patent right has not been terminated for other reasons since the announcement of the authorization of the patent right, the patent right shall be terminated on the expiration of the patent right period.

Legal basis: Article 21 of the Copyright Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates that the protection period of citizens' right to publish their works and the rights stipulated in Item (5) to Item (17) of Paragraph 1 of Article 10 of this Law is 50 years after the author's life and his death, ending at 65438+February 3/0/day in the fiftieth year after the author's death, and the result is a cooperative work, ending at the last deceased author.

The term of protection for the works of legal persons or other organizations, as well as the post works enjoyed by legal persons or other organizations, and the rights specified in Item (5) to Item (17) of Paragraph 1 of Article 10 of this Law is fifty years, ending at 65438+February 3 1 day in the fiftieth year after the first publication of the works, but the works have not been published within fifty years after the completion of the creation.

For cinematographic works and works created by similar cinematographic or photographic methods, the term of protection of the right of publication and the rights stipulated in Items (5) to (17) of Paragraph 1 of Article 10 of this Law is fifty years, ending at 65438+February 3 1 day in the fiftieth year after the first publication of the works. However, if the work is not published within 50 years after the creation is completed, this law will no longer protect it.