Z:gnu-www-ja-software-patents--9cb565-There is an additional problem/en

There is an additional problem which has nothing to do with promoting any one opinion. It gets in the way of understanding even the facts. The term &ldquo;intellectual property&rdquo; is a catch-all. It lumps together completely disparate areas of law such as copyrights and patents, which are completely different. Every detail is different. It also lumps together trademarks which are even more different, and various other things more or less commonly encountered. None of them has anything in common with any of the others. Their origins historically are completely separate.