How to apply for intellectual property protection:

1. Submit an application and obtain authorization.

2. Pay patent annual fees in a timely manner to keep the patent valid.

3. Customs filing is required for import and export trade to prevent external infringement.

4. If you want to explore overseas markets, apply for PCT or apply directly to the country to register the trademark internationally to protect the patent rights in the exporting country.

5. When infringement occurs, file an infringement lawsuit with the court and request an end to the infringement and obtain compensation. The software copyright registration process is relatively complicated, and it is easy to delay the deadline if you handle it yourself. Kuai Legal provides professional copyright registration application services to handle registration matters quickly.

As intangible assets, intellectual property plays an important role in the development of enterprises and is the core competitiveness of enterprises. Enterprises need to protect their intellectual property rights in a timely manner based on their needs and capabilities. Generally speaking, for start-up companies, they need to determine the company's products and brands before registering their trademarks. When infringement occurs, they need to promptly protect their rights through administrative, judicial and other channels.

Appearance design refers to a new design that is aesthetically pleasing and suitable for industrial application based on the shape, pattern, or combination of the product, as well as the combination of color, shape, and pattern.

Knowledge As intangible assets, property rights play an important role in the development of enterprises and are the core competitiveness of enterprises. Enterprises need to protect their intellectual property rights in a timely manner based on their needs and capabilities. Generally speaking, for start-up companies, they need to determine the company's products and brands before registering their trademarks. When infringement occurs, they need to promptly protect their rights through administrative, judicial and other channels.

Different intellectual property rights have different protection methods. The application conditions for intellectual property protection are also based on specific laws and regulations. The following takes trademark registration as an example to introduce to you the application conditions for trademark registration:

For For trademark applicants, Article 4 of the "Trademark Law" stipulates: Enterprises, institutions and individual industrial and commercial persons who need to obtain the exclusive right to trademark for the goods they produce, manufacture, process, select or distribute shall apply to the Trademark Office for commodity trademarks Registration, that is, the scope of applicants for trademark registration:

Must be legally established enterprises, institutions, social groups, individual industrial and commercial households, individual partnerships, and foreigners or foreign enterprises that comply with the provisions of the Trademark Law. Two or more natural persons, legal persons or other organizations may apply to the Trademark Office to register the same trademark at the same time, and jointly enjoy and exercise the exclusive right to use the trademark.

As for trademarks, the Trademark Law stipulates that the trademark applied for registration should have distinctive features, be easy to identify, and must not conflict with the legal rights previously obtained by others.

The protection of intellectual property rights is the driving force for the long-term development of the enterprise starting from the enterprise itself. Entrepreneurs need to pay attention to the protection of intellectual property rights at the beginning of their business. The protection of intellectual property rights ranges from the most basic individual registration to all-round protection.

Characteristics of intellectual property management objects:

(1) Non-materiality

1. The non-materiality of intellectual property management objects is different from tangible property essential characteristics.

2. The object of intellectual property management is certain information, which is incorporeal and non-material. It does not exist in the form of solid, liquid, gas, etc., and does not occupy a certain space.

3. Things that are the objects of property ownership management can generally be possessed by specific people; while information, which is the object of intellectual property rights, cannot be possessed by specific people. They may be copied indefinitely, so Possibly possessed by an unlimited number of persons.

(2) Creativity

1. The purpose of intellectual property law is to encourage people to continuously create new knowledge and skills. Therefore, the intellectual achievements protected by advanced intellectual property laws are mainly Creative intellectual achievements.

2. Creativity is a condition for intellectual achievements to be protected by intellectual property rights. Different objects of protection have different creative requirements required by law.

3. Inventions protected by patents require the highest level of creativity, followed by works protected by copyrights. The Trademark Law does not require creativity for trademarks, but the design and selection of trademarks also reflect creativity. Trade secrets Reflects a certain degree of creativity.

(3) Openness

1. Openness is the prerequisite for most owners of intellectual achievements to obtain intellectual property rights.

2. Among various intellectual property rights, most of their objects exhibit the characteristics of publicity.

(4) Reproducibility

1. The reason why intellectual achievements can become the object of property rights is that intellectual achievements can be fixed and copied by certain tangible objects.

2. Only when intellectual achievements can be replicated and widely disseminated can they promote the continuous progress of human science, technology, and culture, can they also bring economic benefits to rights holders and realize the value of their labor.

Legal basis:

Article 123 of the "People's Republic of China and Civil Code"

Civil subjects enjoy intellectual property rights in accordance with the law. Intellectual property rights are the exclusive rights enjoyed by obligees in accordance with the law with respect to the following objects:

(1) Works;

(2) Inventions, utility models, and designs;

(3) Trademarks;

(4) Geographical indications;

(5) Trade secrets;

(6) Integrated circuit layout design;

(7) New plant varieties;

(8) Other objects stipulated by law.