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What does an intellectual property company do?

Intellectual property companies provide intellectual property agency and provide services for corporate intellectual property management. They mainly refer to agency companies, such as patent agencies and trademark registration agencies, which can help companies write patent application documents and Registered trademark application documents.

There are also some that provide consulting services, such as analyzing the patent market of a certain industry,

predicting patent trends, and forming some patent research documents for enterprise reference. .

In addition, there are some intellectual property service companies whose main business is to fight against counterfeiting. They are entrusted by enterprises to investigate and discover products with counterfeit trademarks and patents in the market, and file lawsuits through administrative or judicial channels, thereby protecting the enterprises. intellectual property rights. The main business scope of the intellectual property company:

1. Copyright and neighboring rights. Copyright, also known as copyright, refers to the personal and property rights enjoyed by authors of literary, artistic and scientific works and their related subjects in accordance with the law. Neighboring rights are called “copyright-related rights and interests” in copyright law.

2. Patent rights refer to the exclusive rights to implement inventions, utility models and designs that natural persons, legal persons or other organizations enjoy within a certain period of time in accordance with the law.

3. Trademark rights, that is, the various rights that the trademark registrant or rights successor enjoys over the registered trademark within the statutory period.

4. Trade secret rights, that is, the exclusive rights enjoyed by civil subjects in accordance with the law over technical information or business information that are trade secrets.

5. New plant variety rights, that is, the exclusive right to use the authorized varieties enjoyed by the unit or individual who has completed the breeding in accordance with the law.

6. Integrated circuit layout design rights, that is, the exclusive rights enjoyed by natural persons, legal persons or other organizations over integrated circuit layout designs in accordance with the law.

7. Trade name rights, that is, the exclusive right to use a trade name that a commercial entity enjoys within a certain geographical scope according to law.