About the "Contents of the World Intellectual Property Handwritten Newsletter" are as follows:
1. The origin of World Intellectual Property Day
World Intellectual Property Day is organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization It was established on April 26, 2001, and decided to designate April 26 every year as "World Intellectual Property Day" from 2001 onwards. The purpose is to establish a worldwide awareness of respecting knowledge, advocating science and protecting intellectual property rights. Create a legal environment that encourages knowledge innovation and protects intellectual property rights.
2. The role of Intellectual Property Day
Intellectual property refers to the ownership of the fruits of intellectual labor produced by human intellectual labor. It is an exclusive right granted to qualified authors, inventors or achievement owners within a certain period of time in accordance with the laws of various countries. The future competition in the world is the competition of intellectual property rights. Intellectual property protection has become a "rigid necessity" for innovation-driven development, a "standard feature" of international trade, and an important aspect of creating a good business environment.
3. Scope of intellectual property rights
(1) Copyright, also known as copyright, refers to the property rights and spiritual rights enjoyed by natural persons, legal persons or other organizations in literary, artistic and scientific works in accordance with the law. A general term for rights. It mainly includes copyright and neighboring rights related to copyright; usually, the intellectual property rights we talk about mainly refer to computer software copyright and work registration.
(2) Industrial property rights refer to an intangible property right with practical economic significance in industry, commerce, agriculture, forestry and other industries. From this point of view, the name "industrial property rights" is more appropriate. Mainly including patent rights and trademark rights.