Intellectual property rights can be divided into two categories: one is copyright, including neighboring rights; One is industrial property right, which mainly includes patent right and trademark right. Countries around the world have different understandings of the scope of industrial property rights, but according to the provisions of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property Rights, "industrial property rights should be understood in the broadest sense, including not only industry and commerce itself, but also agriculture and extractive industries, as well as all manufactured or natural products". According to the general principles of civil law, China's intellectual property rights include copyright, patent right, trademark exclusive right, discovery right, invention right and other scientific and technological achievements right. Among them, the first three types of rights constitute the main body of intellectual property rights in China, and they are also the main types of intellectual property rights in construction activities. Most intellectual property rights need to be registered by inventors or creators, and will be protected by laws and state organs. However, copyright can be enjoyed without the approval of state organs. The personal rights of copyright owners are generally not transferable, but the property rights of works can be transferred.

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Intellectual property rights refer to "the exclusive rights enjoyed by the obligee to the intellectual labor results created by him", which are generally valid only for a limited time. All kinds of intellectual creations, such as inventions, literary and artistic works, and signs, names, images and designs used in business, can be regarded as intellectual property rights owned by a certain person or organization. According to this provision, intellectual property rights can be divided into two categories. The first category is to protect people's intellectual creation activities in all aspects of culture and industry, including copyright and invention rights; The second category is the protection of identification marks in industrial activities, including trademark rights and trade name rights. The former category can be divided into copyright that mainly protects and promotes spiritual culture and patent that mainly protects and promotes material culture. But in fact, before the above convention, the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1883) has stipulated "industrial property rights", saying that the objects of industrial property rights protection include patents, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, service marks, manufacturers' names, country of origin marks or names and the prevention of unfair competition. So intellectual property rights are generally divided into two categories: copyright and industrial property rights. Under industrial property rights, it is divided into patent right, trademark right and trade name right. This division also makes sense. Industrial property rights are related to "industry", otherwise there is no copyright. Nowadays, due to the progress of science and technology, the products of human wisdom should be more and more protected by law, and the scope of intellectual property rights is gradually expanding. For example, the number of protected objects has increased, such as layout design, computer software, proprietary technology, integrated circuits and so on. And it is still increasing. Therefore, intellectual property is now a general term for rights, and it is still expanding.