Generally speaking, intellectual property rights refer to the exclusive rights that citizens, legal persons or other organizations enjoy according to law for their intellectual achievements in the fields of science and technology, literature and art, etc.
Intellectual property rights in a broad sense include the rights of the following objects: literary, artistic and scientific works, performances by performing artists, records and radio programs, inventions in all fields of human beings, scientific discoveries, industrial designs, trademarks, service marks, commodity names and marks, cessation of unfair competition, and all rights arising from intellectual activities in the industrial, scientific, literary and artistic fields.
Intellectual property in a narrow sense only includes copyright, patent right, trademark right, name right and stopping unfair competition, but does not include the right of scientific discovery, invention and other scientific and technological achievements.
2. The object of intellectual property rights
In China, the object of intellectual property is generally regarded as immaterial, so invisibility is regarded as its basic attribute. In fact, the object of intellectual property is consistent with the object. The object of intellectual property rights is a kind of civil right object in which material products (that is, tangible things or objects of real rights in the sense of civil law) coexist, and immateriality is its basic attribute. Different theories about the object of intellectual property are numerous and varied, and a relatively unified view has not yet been formed. At present, the academic circles have the following viewpoints: intellectual achievement theory, spiritual wealth theory, dominant behavior theory, interest relationship theory, information theory, intangible property theory and so on. In the traditional theory, the general theory about the object of intellectual property is "the theory of intellectual achievements".