isr.co.ro : glossary Intellectual property In the broader sense, any special knowledge or information that can be bought and sold. More narrowly, patents, trademarks, copyrights, and any other kind of data that's considered by the law to be an economic asset. Fortunately for lawyers and unfortunately for the software and computer industries, the exact extent and manner in which such legal protection should be applied to new technologies isn't always clear from the statutes and must be discovered through case law. Go back