industrial property
Law
noun
(As a mass noun) the sole commercial rights to the exploitation of a design, invention, trademark, etc., upon registration of a patent (used in English legal contexts chiefly as a borrowing from its usage in European law); also as a count noun.
Origin
Late 19th century. After French propriété industrielle; compare intellectual property.
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