Z:gnu-www-ja-not-ipr--d824ef-According to Professor Mark Le/en

According to Professor Mark Lemley, now of the Stanford Law School, the widespread use of the term &ldquo;intellectual property&rdquo; is a fashion that followed the 1967 founding of the World &ldquo;Intellectual Property&rdquo; Organization (WIPO), and only became really common in recent years. (WIPO is formally a UN organization, but in fact represents the interests of the holders of copyrights, patents, and trademarks.) Wide use dates from around 1990. (Local image copy)