Trademark registration: Trademark registration can protect your trademark right by law, and others may not use your trademark to engage in commodity sales and service activities of the registered category of your trademark. For example, you have a trademark called "so-and-so food". If others steal your trademark and print "so-and-so food" on their own products or storefronts, you can sue the other party for infringing your trademark right in court.
design patent: if your product packaging has a unique aesthetic feeling and there is no similar packaging in the market before, applying for design patent can effectively protect the patent right of product packaging. Others have no right to use the packaging effect of the appearance patent you have applied for;
invention patent: if your catering formula has never been made public before, or it is your newly developed and original formula, you can apply for an invention patent, which will protect the formula of this product from being used by others. However, if others have made new improvements to your formula or are not exactly the same, it may not necessarily constitute infringement. The most effective way to protect intellectual property of food formula is invention patent;
copyright registration: if there are many original elements involved in your storefront effect and storefront design, you can register these words and image elements for copyright protection. If others use your copyrighted content without authorization, it is an act of copyright infringement.
intellectual property rights include copyright, patent right and trademark right. If it is a patent right, apply according to the Patent Law; If it belongs to a trademark, apply according to the Trademark Law.