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  2.                         What is Intellectual Property?
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  4.                Intellectual property refers to a broad collection of
  5.           rights relating to things such as works of authorship,
  6.           inventions, trademarks, designs and trade secrets. It is
  7.           said to comprise two main branches:
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  9.                * Industrial property, covering inventions,
  10.           trademarks, industrial design, and protection against
  11.           unfair competition, including protection of trade secrets;
  12.  
  13.                * Copyrights, which concern literary, musical,
  14.           artistic, photographic and cinematographic works.
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  16.                No international treaty completely defines these types
  17.           of intellectual property, and the laws of the various
  18.           countries differ from each other in significant respects.
  19.           National intellectual property laws create, confirm, or
  20.           regulate a property right without which others could use or
  21.           copy a trade secret, an expression, a design, or a product
  22.           or its mark and packaging.
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