1, the principle of national treatment, that is, in the protection of industrial property rights, member States must give each other nationals of other member States equal protection and treatment that their own nationals can get.
2, the principle of priority, that is, States parties have the obligation to give priority to nationals of other States parties. The so-called priority means that on the basis of the first formal application for industrial property rights to a member state, nationals of each contracting state can request the first application date as the next application date if they file the same application with the same content to other member States within a certain period of time.
3, the principle of independence, that is, between member States, the patent or trademark exclusive right granted to the same invention or trademark is independent of each other, and it is examined and approved according to their respective laws and does not affect each other.
4. The principle of compulsory license, that is, the patentee of a member country must implement its patented invention within a certain period of time. Otherwise, the patent authorities of member countries have the right to issue a compulsory license to exploit the patent upon request, or revoke the patent right according to law.
The so-called basic principles of intellectual property law refer to the guiding ideology and basic principles in legislation, law enforcement, justice and law popularization that embody and run through the whole intellectual property rights.