The international protection system of intellectual property rights refers to a relatively unified international legal system that is formed by coordinating the domestic intellectual property laws of various countries with multilateral international conventions as the basic form and intergovernmental international organizations as the coordinating bodies.
The international protection system of intellectual property rights emerged in the 1880s and has now become a legal order in the fields of international economy, culture, science and technology, and trade. It takes representative international conventions such as the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights as the basic form, and relevant international organizations such as the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization as the coordinating bodies to coordinate the intellectual property systems of various countries, thereby forming international legal rules and order in the field of intellectual property protection. The formation of the international protection system of intellectual property rights marks that intellectual property legislation has entered a new historical stage, that is, the intellectual property systems independently generated by various countries have gradually embarked on the road of integration and internationalization under the framework of international protection of intellectual property rights.
The international protection system of intellectual property rights is closely related to the establishment of international organizations such as the World Intellectual Property Organization. The World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization have made contributions to the establishment and management of international conventions.