The patent is legally entitled to the exclusive right to patent his invention, utility model and design. Copyright and patent differences are mainly as follows: 
 (I) of the object of protection. For the protection of the right form of expression of thoughts, feelings and perspectives, does not protect the thoughts, feelings and views, the form of novels, essays, movies, songs, pictures and other types. The patent protection of inventions belong to thinking, view content areas, including inventions, utility models and designs are three types, such as the invention of television, the manufacturing method of the light bulb, the Coca-Cola bottle design. 
 (2) protection of the conditions and requirements. Determined by the object of protection, copyright law can protect the works of the same two themes, as long as these works are original; but the patent does not protect the same subject matter, the two inventions, for example, invented a TV, and applied for a patent, B would not longer apply for the patent. 
 (3) rights in different ways. The right to make can usually be generated automatically, without going through any registration or examination; granted patent rights must be reviewed by the country-specific administrative organs in accordance with the law the legitimate applicant. 
 (4) The rights of the content. For the right content, including personal rights and property rights; patent includes only the implementation of the right to license others to the right to transfer the right to property content, not including the contents of the personal rights. 
 (5) The term of protection of rights. As mentioned earlier, facing the period of protection for property rights is usually the life of the author plus 50 years after death; patent right protection for invention patents for 20 years, designs and utility models, both from the application date calculations.