intellectual property
Americannoun
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Law. property that results from original creative thought, as patents, copyright material, and trademarks.
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an individual product of original creative thought.
Microsoft’s Halo franchise is one of the most profitable intellectual properties in the video game industry.
noun
Etymology
Origin of intellectual property
An Americanism dating back to 1840–45
Example Sentences
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Those that already exist scrape websites and apps - using AI, of course - to identify where a company's intellectual property or a person's image might have been used.
From BBC
The distillation attacks — attempts to maliciously extract the intellectual property of a high-performing AI model — come at a pivotal moment for Anthropic and the AI industry at large.
From MarketWatch
At the same time, intellectual property and data rights in maintenance contracts is a critical issue that the U.S.
From MarketWatch
From an operating-margin standpoint, the company has been benefiting from a greater mix of storage products as well as more sales of its own intellectual property.
From MarketWatch
Paramount says one of its biggest strengths is leveraging its intellectual property across its business to maximize sales.
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