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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 copyright, patent, trademark, and trade secret.

==History of Intellectual Property==  

==History of Intellectual Property==  

The UK Copyright Act of 1838 provided foreign authors who are under the colony of the United Kingdom the same right enjoyed by British citizens to own the copyright for their works. This law became the basis of international copyright law.<ref>[http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~epflugfe/McGuffey%20project/624.5.html UK International Copyright Act of 1838]</ref>

The UK Copyright Act of 1838 provided foreign authors who are under the colony of the United Kingdom the same right enjoyed by British citizens to own the copyright for their works. This law became the basis of international copyright law.<ref>[http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~epflugfe/McGuffey%20project/624.5.html UK International Copyright Act of 1838]</ref>

==The Expansion of Copyright and patent Laws==

==The Expansion of Copyright and Patent Laws==

==References==

==References==