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What are trademarks, patents and copyrights?
Trademarks, patents and copyrights all belong to intellectual property rights.

In short, a trademark is a prominent symbol used to distinguish goods or services, and it is the most common type of intellectual property.

Patents refer to inventions protected by law, including invention patents, utility model patents and design patents.

Refers to the patent right enjoyed by the patentee for invention-creation, that is, the state grants the inventor or his successor the exclusive right to use his invention-creation within a certain period of time according to law, and the emphasis here is on rights. Patent right is an exclusive right with exclusivity. It should be noted that in daily life, people usually confuse the two concepts of "patent" and "patent application". For example, some people claim that they have patents, and their patent applications have not been authorized. In fact, a patent application can only be called a patent application before it is authorized.

Copyright, also known as copyright, refers to the rights enjoyed by authors of literary, artistic and scientific works.