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    Intellectual property refers to original ideas and works that stem from human creativity and labor. It covers inventions, literary works, and critical business information. Unlike real property like land, intellectual property does not have clear physical boundaries. Intellectual property manifests in various forms, including inventions protected by patents and literary works protected by copyright. Intellectual property rights refer to the legal rights that protect these manifestations of human creativity. While intellectual property and intellectual property rights are often used interchangeably, they actually have independent meanings - intellectual property refers to the original creative works themselves, while intellectual property rights refer to the legal protections for those works.

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    Intellectual property refers to original ideas and works that stem from human creativity and labor. It covers inventions, literary works, and critical business information. Unlike real property like land, intellectual property does not have clear physical boundaries. Intellectual property manifests in various forms, including inventions protected by patents and literary works protected by copyright. Intellectual property rights refer to the legal rights that protect these manifestations of human creativity. While intellectual property and intellectual property rights are often used interchangeably, they actually have independent meanings - intellectual property refers to the original creative works themselves, while intellectual property rights refer to the legal protections for those works.

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    Intellectual Property

    Prof. Feroz Ali


    Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
    Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

    Lecture - 02
    An Introduction to Intellectual Property

    (Refer Slide Time: 00:14)

    What is an intellectual property? Intellectual property relates to original ideas, results


    that emanate from research, and generally it covers some kind of critical business
    information. Intellectual property refers to that set of properties that emanates from
    human creative labour.

    Now when we mention intellectual property we are specifically trying to define


    intellectual property as that is distinct from real property. For example, land or a laptop
    or a pen, these are instances of property that exist in the real world. You can touch and
    feel them, they are tangible, you can feel them, there are borders to it, there is no
    perceivable dispute with regard to where the contours of these properties are. A land is
    defined by its boundaries, a pen is an object that exists in time and space. So, we do not
    have problems in ascertaining the boundaries of this property; whereas, when we come
    to intellectual property we do have certain issues as to understanding the outer limits or
    the boundaries or the private space of intellectual property.
    (Refer Slide Time: 01:33)

    Now, intellectual property specifically refers to things that emanate from human creative
    labour. Intellectual property manifests itself in various forms. For instance, if you look at
    invention, and invention is an intellectual property which can be protected by a patent,
    which is an intellectual property right. A literary work a book or the work that is written
    or expressed in words could be an intellectual property which can be protected by an
    intellectual property rights that is copyright.

    So, there is a distant distinction between intellectual property or the rights of property
    that manifest in certain creations made by human beings, and the right that protects these
    manifestations. Now for us to understand the concept of intellectual property better, we
    need to understand what these word stand for. Now intellectual property and intellectual
    property rights that is IP and IPR are in most places used interchangeably and there is
    nothing wrong with that, because many a times when we talk about intellectual property
    we also want to cover or encompass the corresponding rights.
    (Refer Slide Time: 02:53)

    But for the purpose of this lecture, we will try to explain the independent ingredients that
    constitute intellectual property rights. Now let us start with the right part of it.

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