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Can intellectual property rights be transferred?

The transfer of intellectual property rights can be free or paid. Free transfer of intellectual property rights refers to the transfer of intellectual property rights owned by the transferor to others without the purpose of obtaining consideration. In the practice of intellectual property application, there are many cases of free transfer of intellectual property rights. According to the "Changsha Evening News" report, 81-year-old Zou Ruibin, a retired professor at the School of Life Sciences of Hunan Normal University, spent five years inventing the insulated stewed bun and obtained a national patent in 2003. On August 12, 2005, Mr. Zou expressed his willingness to transfer the patent to an organization or individual for free, hoping that more people would use the insulated stew bag to save energy for the country. The free transfer in this case was mainly for social welfare considerations; there is also a case of free transfer of intellectual property for the purpose of encouraging entrepreneurship. For example, according to the Economic Daily, at the end of May 2005, Beijing Entrepreneurship Among the 12 entrepreneurial projects launched by the guidance center, two zero-investment entrepreneurial projects and a free-transfer patent project were launched for the first time. However, in the practice of intellectual property transfer, most intellectual property transfers are paid transfers. Because intellectual property rights, as an intangible asset, have property value, this is the prerequisite for the transfer of intellectual property rights to be paid. On the other hand, from the perspective of the intellectual property rights holder, obtaining transfer benefits through the transfer of intellectual property rights is a prerequisite for the transfer of intellectual property rights. important purpose of the transfer. Therefore, the transfer of intellectual property rights is usually a paid behavior. For example, copyright transfer is an act in which an author or other copyright holder transfers all or part of the property rights in the copyright to another person during the validity period of the copyright and receives remuneration in accordance with the agreement or the relevant provisions of the copyright law.