What is intellectual property? What does intellectual property include?

Intellectual property refers to the legal protection enjoyed by the achievements of human intellectual creation. It includes patents, trademarks, copyrights, industrial designs and geographical indications. Patent is the exclusive right of invention and creation, trademark is the mark used to distinguish goods or services, copyright is the exclusive right of literary, artistic and scientific works, industrial design is the exclusive right of product appearance, and geographical indications are the marks used to identify the geographical origin of products.