Abstract:Based on the balanced panel data of 249 cities in China from 2004 to 2018, combined with the green total factor productivity index measured by SBM model, this paper deeply investigates the direct effect and spillover effect of China"s regional intellectual property protection on green total factor productivity through Spatial Durbin model, and discusses the heterogeneity of this spatial effect in different regions, city scale and marketization degree. It also reveals the specific path of intellectual property protection to promote regional green development in the end. It’s found that Intellectual property protection can promote green total factor productivity in local and adjacent regions at the same time, and the promotion effect on green development in adjacent regions is even much higher than that in local regions, showing significant spatial spillover effect. For cities located in the eastern region, with large city scale and normal trading markets, the green development promotion effect of intellectual property protection is more significant, but for cities located in the western region and with small city scale, the spillover effect of intellectual property protection will worsen the green development of adjacent regions. Regional intellectual property protection mainly enhances technological progress to promote regional green economic development.