The overlapping intellectual property protection is a by-product of intellectual property expansion, betraying the balance object of intellectual property policy. It directly results in internalizing positive externalities, destroying incentive mechanism of intellectual property, and adding monopoly costs of intellectual property.A solution on the problem is to prohibit overlapping intellectual property protection in principle by amending existing regulations,to take precautions against overlapping protection by setting out industrial copyright law,and to reduce the harm from overlapping protection by clarifying 1egal interpretable rules. |