1, the origin of World Intellectual Property Day

World Intellectual Property Day was established by the World Intellectual Property Organization on April 26th, 20001year, and it was decided to designate April 26th of each year as "World Intellectual Property Day" from April 26th of 20001year, with the purpose of establishing a worldwide awareness of respecting knowledge, advocating science and protecting intellectual property rights, and creating a legal environment to encourage knowledge innovation and protect intellectual property rights.

2. Role of Intellectual Property Day

Intellectual property refers to the ownership of intellectual labor results produced by human intellectual labor. It is an exclusive right granted to qualified authors, inventors or owners of achievements in a certain period of time according to the laws of various countries. The competition in the future world is the competition of intellectual property rights. Intellectual property protection has become the "just need" of innovation-driven development and the "standard" of international trade, and it is also an important aspect of shaping a good business environment.

3, the scope of intellectual property rights

(1) Copyright, also known as copyright, refers to the property rights and spiritual rights enjoyed by natural persons, legal persons or other organizations for literary, artistic and scientific works according to law. 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 it is more appropriate to use the name "industrial property right", which mainly includes patent right and trademark right.