Intellectual property

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Not to be confused with confidential information, intellectual property covers copyrights, patents, trade marks, property rights that arise at common law (or under statute ) which can be enforced against all comers, and not simply as a result of any contract.

For intellectual property rights to arise there needs, as the name suggests, to be some application of someone’s intellect to the creation of the information. Not all information can be protected: raw data, for example, can’t.

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See also

• Copyright
• Patent
• Trade mark
• Confidentiality