How to Use intellectual property in a Sentence

intellectual property

noun
Definition of intellectual propertynext
  • Any song that you write is your intellectual property.
  • Justice Patrick DeWine wrote for the court that the dispute centers on intellectual property being used in the state.
    — cleveland, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Streamers are looking for safe bets: programs with big-name talent and existing intellectual property, such as popular books.
    — Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The collections took just over a year to create, following a series of workshops on brand marketing, product range, cash flow and intellectual property.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Cruise seems to know his specialty is on the endangered species list, that the real stars now are intellectual property — remakes and reboots and cinematic installment plans.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The use of those new AI tools has led to some intellectual property concerns, and Ehsani admits the line is blurred.
    — John Kell, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
  • People get to hold the rights to their intellectual property and their art.
    — Sam Sanders, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2023
  • However, it’s being conducted by the people to whom the rights have been sold and who own the rights to the intellectual property.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 15 Mar. 2023
  • There is a physical good side to the re-release and there is money to be made there, but the other side is the licensing and the intellectual property.
    — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The copyright tactic exploits a 1998 U.S. law that was meant to protect intellectual property rights on the web.
    — Shawn Boburg, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Netflix has since partnered with MGM, the studio that owns the intellectual property rights to the franchise, on goods, according to the Journal.
    — Paige Hagy, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Gunn said that much of the past DC chaos stemmed from a loose policy toward intellectual property.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Here’s What to Know Aileen filed a complaint to Temu’s intellectual property protection team and the listing was taken down.
    — TIME, 16 Jan. 2024
  • There have been disputes in court over the ownership of intellectual property on the platform, and the sharing of millions of dollars of revenue earned through the system.
    — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Any intellectual property seems up for reimagining, from books to toys to video games.
    — Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The ruling will affect three pending lawsuits that Wright has filed based on his claim to having the intellectual property rights to bitcoin.
    — Brian Melley, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2024
  • In 2001, Google purchased the intellectual property rights of Deja, one of the leading review sites.
    — Will McCarthy, Longreads, 3 Jan. 2023
  • She’s got an amazing roster of authors and at the heart of everything has great ideas and IP (intellectual property).
    — Wendy Leestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • This is the first NFT jury decision around intellectual property, but there are other cases in the works.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Even many copyright and intellectual property scholars see it as a long shot.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2023
  • But there are a number of new intellectual property issues that arise when these tools, which are relatively new, are unleashed on the world.
    — Matt Novak, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Finch now aims to sell off its intellectual property and assets.
    — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2023
  • They were brought here to have their labor and intellectual property extracted from them without being given the rights and the freedom that anyone else in this country has.
    — Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Creators will continue to seek help from the courts to stop their intellectual property from getting ripped off by AI training models.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Famed rock group Kiss has reached a deal to sell its catalog, brand name and other intellectual property to a Swedish entertainment group for more than $300 million.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The justices left Congress to address the novel intellectual property issues raised in the case, leading to key revisions in copyright law a year later.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 July 2023
  • For Guez, the problem is that being incorporated in Israel leaves her intellectual property exposed to a government that now cannot be reined in by the courts.
    — WIRED, 26 July 2023
  • It is seen as a desirable place to seek approval for mergers and litigate disputes, and doesn’t levy sales tax or tax on profits from intellectual property.
    — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
  • In the age of Hollywood remakes and intellectual property grabs, Batman is king.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2024
  • In the face of slowing console sales, Nintendo has also been trying to license out its intellectual property for use everywhere from movies to theme parks.
    — Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2024

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