1. Intellectual property is an intangible property.
2. Intellectual property rights are exclusive.
3. Intellectual property rights have the characteristics of timeliness.
4. Intellectual property rights are regional.
The acquisition of most intellectual property rights requires legal procedures. For example, the acquisition of trademark rights requires registration.
Legal characteristics
Legally speaking, intellectual property rights have three most obvious legal characteristics:
1. The regionality of intellectual property rights, that is, except for signing international conventions or bilateral and multilateral agreements, the rights obtained according to the laws of a country can only be valid within the territory of that country and protected by the laws of that country.
2, the exclusiveness of intellectual property rights, that is, only the obligee can enjoy, without the permission of the obligee, others may not exercise their rights.
3, the timeliness of intellectual property rights, the laws of various countries have stipulated a certain period of time for intellectual property rights, and the rights will automatically terminate after the expiration.
"Intellectual property rights refer to the exclusive rights enjoyed by citizens, legal persons or other organizations on the intellectual achievements of creative labor, which are protected by law and inviolable."
Extended data
Intellectual property refers to the ownership of intellectual labor results produced by human intellectual labor. It is an exclusive right granted to qualified authors, inventors or owners of achievements in a certain period of time according to the laws of various countries. It is generally considered to include copyright and industrial property rights.
Copyright (copyright) refers to the general name of personal rights and property rights enjoyed by authors and other copyright owners in literary, artistic and scientific works according to law; Industrial property rights refer to the exclusive rights enjoyed by the obligee, including invention patents, utility model patents, design patents, trademarks, service marks, names of manufacturers, sources or countries of origin.
Since the promulgation of the Notice on the Outline of National Intellectual Property Strategy in 2008, China has successively promulgated laws and regulations such as trademark law, patent law, technology contract law, copyright law and anti-unfair competition law.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia: Intellectual Property