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'''Intellectual Property (IP)''' as defined by the World Intellectual Property Organization ([[WIPO]]) is anything created by the mind such as inventions,literary and artistic works, symbols, names, images, and designs that are commercially used. It is divided into two categories: Industrial Property which include industrial designs, inventions etc., and Copyright which include literary and artistic creations such novels, poems, plays, music and drawings.<ref>[http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en WIPO]</ref> IP is protected by patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret.

'''Intellectual Property (IP)''' as defined by the World Intellectual Property Organization ([[WIPO]]) is anything created by the mind such as inventions,literary and artistic works, symbols, names, images, and designs that are commercially used. It is divided into two categories: Industrial Property which include industrial designs, inventions etc., and Copyright which include literary and artistic creations such novels, poems, plays, music and drawings.<ref>[http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en WIPO]</ref> IP is protected by patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret.

==Background==  

==History of Intellectual Property==  

===The Ancient Greece===

===The Ancient Greece===

The beginnings of intellectual property can be traced back in the Ancient Greece around 500 B.C.E. The chefs in the Greek colony of Sybarias were the first holders of year-long monopolies in creating a particular recipe. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy cited the accounts written in American Patent and Copyright Law by Bruce Bugbee in 1967 that the first violation of intellectual property during the ancient times was revealed by Vitruvius (257-180 B.C.E.), a judge in a literary contest in Alexandria.He exposed false poets who used the words and phrases of others and they were tried, convicted and disgraced.<ref>

The beginnings of intellectual property can be traced back in the Ancient Greece around 500 B.C.E. The chefs in the Greek colony of Sybarias were the first holders of year-long monopolies in creating a particular recipe. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy cited the accounts written in American Patent and Copyright Law by Bruce Bugbee in 1967 that the first violation of intellectual property during the ancient times was revealed by Vitruvius (257-180 B.C.E.), a judge in a literary contest in Alexandria.He exposed false poets who used the words and phrases of others and they were tried, convicted and disgraced.<ref>