Legal analysis: It is illegal to apply for a patent for appearance. The crime of infringing intellectual property rights refers to the illegal use of intellectual property rights without the permission of intellectual property rights holders, which infringes on the state intellectual property management order and the legitimate rights and interests of intellectual property rights holders, and the amount of illegal income is large or the circumstances are serious.

Legal basis: Article 57 of the Trademark Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) commits any of the following acts, all of which are violations of the exclusive right to use a registered trademark:

(1) Using the same trademark as its registered trademark on the same commodity without the permission of the trademark registrant;

(2) Without the permission of the trademark registrant, using a trademark similar to its registered trademark on the same kind of goods, or using a trademark identical with or similar to its registered trademark on similar goods is likely to cause confusion;

(3) selling goods that infringe upon the exclusive right to use a registered trademark;

(4) Forging or unauthorized manufacturing of registered trademark marks of others or selling forged or unauthorized registered trademark marks;

(five) without the consent of the trademark registrant, the registered trademark is changed and the goods with the changed trademark are put on the market again;

(6) Deliberately facilitating the infringement of the exclusive right to use a trademark of others and helping others to commit the infringement of the exclusive right to use a trademark;

(seven) causing other damage to the exclusive right to use a registered trademark of others.