Intellectual property refers to the right to possess, use, dispose of and benefit from the fruits of intellectual labor according to law. Intellectual property is an intangible property, which, like tangible property such as houses and automobiles, is protected by national laws and has value and use value. The value of some major patents, well-known trademarks or works is much higher than tangible property such as houses and cars. Main scope: 1. Copyright and neighboring rights. Copyright, also known as copyright, refers to the personal rights and property rights enjoyed by the authors of literary, artistic and scientific works and their related subjects according to law. Neighboring right is called "copyright-related right" in copyright law. 2. Patent right refers to the exclusive right of natural person, legal person or other organization to exploit inventions, utility models and designs within a certain period of time. 3. Trademark rights, that is, all kinds of rights enjoyed by trademark registrants or heirs of registered trademark rights within the statutory time limit. 4. The right to trade secrets, that is, the exclusive right that the civil subject enjoys according to law for technical information or business information belonging to trade secrets. 5. The right to new plant varieties, that is, the exclusive right to use varieties authorized by units or individuals who have completed breeding according to law. 6. The right of integrated circuit layout design means the exclusive right of integrated circuit layout design enjoyed by natural persons, legal persons or other organizations according to law. 7. Trade name right, that is, the exclusive right to use a trade name legally enjoyed by commercial subjects within a certain geographical scope. Intellectual property strategy is a long-term development strategy of some countries. He has played a great role in enhancing the national competitiveness. 1979, the American government put forward that "we should adopt independent policies to improve the national competitiveness and invigorate the entrepreneurial spirit", which raised the intellectual property strategy to the level of national strategy for the first time. Since then, intellectual property strategy has become the unified strategy of American enterprises and government. The United States has made a series of amendments and expansions to the intellectual property law. 1980 passed the Bayh-Dole act, 1986 passed the federal law on technology transfer and the law on commercialization of technology transfer. 1999, the us congress passed the American inventors protection act, and in June 2000, the Senate and the house of representatives passed the technology transfer commercialization act, which further simplified the application procedures for scientific and technological achievements belonging to the federal government. In addition, in international trade, on the one hand, it suppresses competitors through the "special clause 30 1" of its comprehensive trade bill, on the other hand, it actively promotes the intellectual property agreement of the World Trade Organization, thus forming a set of new international trade rules that are beneficial to the United States. At the same time, the United States attaches great importance to the study of intellectual property strategy. For example, the "patent scoreboard" system of CHI Research Company in the United States uses bibliometric analysis methods to study scientific papers and patent indicators, which has been adopted by many countries.