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What is intellectual property?

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Intellectual property includes the ideas, inventions, or processes that come from one's mind or intellect. It extends the rights given a written work, or a physical device, and grants a person or company the rights to an idea or concept.

Intellectual property includes inventions and other trade secrets and creative works of a non-functional nature (writings, sculpture, graphics, etc.) A person's own name and likeness are also sometimes included as protectable property, though not as intellectual property.

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Intellectual property includes:

copyrights
patents
designs
blueprints
artistic creations

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