How to Use intellectual property in a Sentence

intellectual property

noun
  • Any song that you write is your intellectual property.
  • People get to hold the rights to their intellectual property and their art.
    — Sam Sanders, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2023
  • So there goes a lot of the asset value and intellectual property out the door.
    — Jennifer J. Fondrevay, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Finch now aims to sell off its intellectual property and assets.
    — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The call letters would be transferred for free with the sale of the intellectual properties.
    — Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Any intellectual property seems up for reimagining, from books to toys to video games.
    — Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 12 Oct. 2023
  • As intellectual property, movies are a form of services – not goods.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 5 May 2025
  • Even many copyright and intellectual property scholars see it as a long shot.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2023
  • But this idea of IP, think of where that comes, intellectual property.
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Nov. 2022
  • And a firm’s intellectual property is hard to guard once factory workers have been trained to make its products.
    — Roya Wolverson, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Temu‘s once again being forced to face the music on intellectual property claims.
    — Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 12 Sep. 2025
  • One long-term solution might be to waive intellectual property rights, so vaccines can be produced around the world.
    — NBC News, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Actors don’t have the right to tell studios what to do with their intellectual property, and this contract doesn’t give them that power.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 15 May 2026
  • There is so much history there, so much potential there, as well, so much intellectual property there, as well.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Part of that is because of the theft of US intellectual property.
    — CBS News, 7 Apr. 2021
  • That starts with protecting intellectual property at home and abroad.
    — Aaron Seibert, Boston Herald, 18 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Swift is no stranger to intellectual property matters.
    — Bryan West, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The deal was a reminder — if one were needed — of just how potent the business of owning intellectual property has become.
    — Evan Clark, WWD, 19 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Gunn said that much of the past DC chaos stemmed from a loose policy toward intellectual property.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Your job is to innovate, and your job is to look for fresh IP [intellectual property] and fresh voices.
    — Julia Boorstin,stephen Desaulniers, CNBC, 6 June 2026
  • But Coe barely listened to the pitches as soon as anybody raised the idea of buying his intellectual property.
    — Geoff Edgers, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Cook will retain full ownership of the intellectual property and creative control of the show.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 20 Apr. 2026
  • One is that China wants its businesses to invest in intellectual property around the world and own global brands.
    — Beth Kowitt, Fortune, 1 July 2021
  • 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 president has used tariffs against China as a threat to lower the trade deficit, stop intellectual property theft and more.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 23 Feb. 2026
  • There was no cost to be paid for tabling the issue yet again, as the WTO’s intellectual property council did last week.
    — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Behind the scenes, there has already been a bitter legal battle about the intellectual property rights to the C-type.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 2 Sep. 2021

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