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.