First, it is obvious which law intellectual property belongs to. In intellectual property law, there are both private law norms and public law norms; There are both substantive norms and procedural norms. However, as far as the ownership of legal departments is concerned, intellectual property law still belongs to civil law and is a special law of civil law.

Most of the basic principles, systems and legal norms of civil law are applicable to intellectual property rights. The norms of public law and procedural law in intellectual property law serve to confirm and protect the private rights of intellectual property rights and do not dominate.

China's intellectual property law consists of three laws: copyright law, trademark law and patent law.

Second, the characteristics of intellectual property law (1) intangible property rights.

(2) Confirmation or award must be directly stipulated by special national legislation.

(3) Duality: both the nature of some personal rights (such as the right to sign) and the content of property rights. But the trademark right is an exception, it only protects property rights, not personal rights.

(4) Appropriateness: Intellectual property belongs exclusively to the subject of rights. Without the consent of the creditor or special provisions of the law, no one except the creditor may enjoy or use this right.

(5) Regionality: Intellectual property rights recognized and protected by a country's laws have legal effect only within the country.

(6) Timeliness: the law stipulates a certain period of protection for intellectual property rights, and intellectual property rights are valid within the statutory period.

III. Main Scope of Intellectual Property (1) Copyright and neighboring rights. Copyright, also known as copyright, refers to the personal rights and property rights enjoyed by the authors of literary, artistic and scientific works and their related subjects according to law. Neighboring right is called "copyright-related right" in copyright law.

(2) Patent right, that is, the exclusive right to use inventions, utility models and designs within a certain period of time enjoyed by natural persons, legal persons or other organizations according to law.

(3) Trademark rights, that is, all kinds of rights enjoyed by the trademark registrant or the successor of registered trademark rights within the statutory time limit.

(4) the right of trade secrets, that is, the exclusive right of civil subjects to technical information or business information that belongs to trade secrets according to law.

(five) the right to new plant varieties, that is, the exclusive right to use varieties authorized by units or individuals that have completed breeding according to law.

(six) the right of layout design of integrated circuits, that is, the exclusive right of layout design of integrated circuits enjoyed by natural persons, legal persons or other organizations according to law.

(7) Trade name right, that is, the exclusive right to use a trade name enjoyed by commercial subjects within a certain geographical scope.

There are great differences in theoretical circles about whether the right to reward scientific and technological achievements, the right to geographical indications, the right to domain names, the right to fight unfair competition, the exclusive right to database and the right to commercialization can become independent intellectual property rights.