intellectual properties
Patents and trademarks
Intellectual properties are creations of the mind—inventions, artistic works, designs, symbols, names—that law treats as ownable.
Patents protect inventions, copyrights protect creative works, trademarks protect brand identifiers.
The term usually appears in legal and business contexts: The company's intellectual properties include three patents and a trademark.
Often abbreviated IP.
- IPProtected creations or addresses
- patentObvious; inventor's monopoly
- patent pendingInvention protection sought, ungranted
- patent trollEntity monetizing dormant intellectual property
- trade secretsProtected commercial knowledge
inventions · copy · knock off · composers · content creator · computer programs · video recordings · scholarly works · creative works · royalty · rights holder · licensing · movies · protection · cease and desist · print · photographs · copyright
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Measurable trait of matter
tangible assets · real property · material goods · real estate · personal property
intellectual propertiespublic domain
Unprotected creative works
open-source · commons · creative commons · open source · common knowledge
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