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Law

legal rights in creations of the mind, chiefly patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets.

In law, intellectual property refers to legal rights in creations of the mind, chiefly patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets. This meaning comes from Menell (2023) in Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2023. Here intellectual property is not property in information, which is costly to produce but cheap to copy, so that markets underinvest in invention without protection.[1]

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Economics

property in information, which is costly to produce but cheap to copy, so that markets underinvest in invention without protection.

In economics, intellectual property refers to property in information, which is costly to produce but cheap to copy, so that markets underinvest in invention without protection. This meaning comes from Arrow (1962) in The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity. Here intellectual property is not legal rights in creations of the mind, chiefly patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets.[2]

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References

  1. Menell, P. S., Lemley, M. A., Merges, R. P., & Balganesh, S. (2023). Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2023. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4507044
  2. Arrow, K. J. (1962). Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention. In The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity (pp. 609-626). Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400879762-024

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