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What is an intellectual property certificate?
1, patent refers to inventions protected by the patent law, that is, patented technology, which is a proprietary technology recognized by the state and protected by law on the basis of publicity. In China, there are three kinds of patents: inventions, utility models and designs.

2. Intellectual property, also known as "ownership of knowledge", refers to "the property rights enjoyed by the obligee on the fruits created by his intellectual labor". It has two types: one is copyright (also known as copyright and literary property rights) and the other is industrial property rights (also known as industrial property rights). ?

(1) Copyright, also known as copyright, refers to the property rights and spiritual rights legally enjoyed by natural persons, legal persons or other organizations for literary, artistic and scientific works. Mainly including copyright and neighboring rights related to copyright; Usually, what we call intellectual property mainly refers to the copyright of computer software and the registration of works. ?

(2) Industrial property right refers to an intangible property right with practical economic significance in industries such as industry, commerce, agriculture and forestry, so the name "industrial property right" seems more appropriate. It mainly includes patent right and trademark right. ?

To sum up, intellectual property rights include patent rights.

A patent certificate is a patent certificate issued to a patent applicant by the patent administrative department of the State Council (i.e. China National Intellectual Property Administration) if the patent application has passed the examination and no reason for rejection has been found, and it meets the conditions for granting a patent right. This is a legal document. Patent certificate is divided into invention patent certificate, utility model patent certificate and design patent certificate. The first page of the invention patent certificate records the following contents: the name of the invention, the name of the inventor, the patent number, the date of patent application, the name of the patentee (that is, the name of the applicant), the date of authorization announcement, the signature of the then director China National Intellectual Property Administration and the seal of China National Intellectual Property Administration. The patent certificate also includes the patent authorization text. According to the Patent Law, the examination and approval procedure of an application for a patent for invention includes five stages: acceptance, preliminary examination, publication, substantive examination and authorization. The authorization process of invention patent is relatively long, generally from the submission of application, one or two years to at least half a year, before authorization can be obtained, so as to obtain the invention patent certificate. The term of the invention patent right is twenty years, counting from the date of application.