Chinese Fonts Intellectual Property Protection

Chinese characters are people used to express the meaning of cultural heritage tools, has gone through5,000years of history, it is not only a treasure of the Chinese nation, but also in the world’s cultural treasure house of art unique and brilliant. Font as an external manifestation of the Chinese characters, but also enhances the effect of visual communication, so that it rises to the height available for the people to enjoy art. With the the Font font frequent cases in recent years, however, its font to infringing this topic to become the focus of attention. Its unprecedented influence and attention.In this paper, the concept of the font as a starting point, elaborated on the difference between font-related concepts, and on this basis summed up the basic characteristics of the font. Protection of intellectual property rights the status quo at home and abroad font of the mode of foreign fonts intellectual property protection laws, and to point out the defects of the fonts intellectual property protection in China. Finally, through copyright protection for font design patent protection Theoretical Analysis, discusses in detail the feasibility of Chinese characters can be copyrighted and font appearance design patent protection, and as a basis to build the font intellectual property system in China recommendations accordingly.