Intellectual Property Damages Studies

The objection of the protection of intellectual property is intellectual creative achievement .The protection object hasn't concrete image and is intangible. As citizen has the rights to claim for damages when their civil rights are infringed illegally, being a special civil rights, intellectual property owner may claim for damages while their rights is illegally infringed; and the infringers should undertake the damages liability for their infringing act. However, because of the intangible of the objective of the protection of intellectual property, intellectual property infringement doesn't reflect as owning, damaging the intellectual products but as plagiarizing, distorting, passing-off and so on, which make intellectual property damages a complicate problem. The paper first analyzes the basic characters of intellectual property: public rights and private rights. Beginning from legislative characters of intellectual property, the paper induces the speciality of infringement intellectual property, and then discusses the principles of liability in infringement, the principles of damages, scope of damages and measure of damages.