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intellectual property

NOUN
protected property created by original thought
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Companies in search of new sources of profit jump into promising emerging businesses, using inexpensive state-backed financing to scale up—and sometimes play fast-and-loose with intellectual property regulations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

“The investigation may point to the unlawful transfer abroad of specialized intellectual property and trade secrets,” prosecutors said in a statement on Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Even the smallest side characters were gifted their own spin-offs in the streaming service-boosted age of marketable intellectual property.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

The intellectual property formerly owned by Zume – more than 300 patents – was bought up, external by Miso Robotics, of California.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

And part of your job, aside from parsing abstract intellectual property issues for big corporations, is to help cultivate the next set of young lawyers being courted by the firm.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama



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