What is the current intellectual property protection for the storefront image, vi design, product packaging, secret recipes and so on of characteristic restaurants? And how to apply?

Trademark registration: Trademark registration can protect your trademark right according to law, and others may not use your trademark to engage in commodity sales and service activities of your trademark registration category. For example, you have a trademark called "food". If someone steals your trademark and prints "so-and-so food" on their own products or storefronts, you can go to court to sue the other party for infringing your trademark right.

Design patent: If your product packaging has a unique aesthetic feeling and there is no similar packaging in the market before, applying for design patent can effectively protect the patent right of product packaging. Others have no right to use the packaging effect of the appearance patent you applied for;

Invention patent: If your catering formula has never been made public before, or it is an original formula newly developed by you, you can apply for an invention patent, which can protect the formula of this product from being used by others. But if someone else makes new improvements to your formula or it is not exactly the same, it does not necessarily constitute infringement. The most effective way to protect the intellectual property of food formula is invention patent;

Copyright registration: If many original elements are involved in your storefront effect and storefront design, you can register these text and image elements for copyright protection. If others use your copyrighted content without authorization, it is an act of copyright infringement.

Intellectual property rights include copyright, patent right and trademark right. If it is a patent right, apply according to the patent law; If it is a trademark, apply according to the trademark law.