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IPR - Intellectual Property Rights

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Identification	Intellectual Property Rights
Acronym	IPR
Source	European Commission
Description	Intellectual property rights (IPR) are divided into two categories: industrial property, which includes inventions, trademarks, industrial design, and geographical indications of source; and copyright, which includes literary and artistic works such as novels, films, musical works, paintings, photographs, and architectural designs. The majority of intellectual property rights provide creators of original works economic incentive to develop and share ideas through a form of temporary monopoly.

See also:

• Intellectual property,
• industrial property,
• copyright.

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