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It has become fashionable to toss copyright, patents, and trademarks&mdash;three separate and different entities involving three separate and different sets of laws&mdash;plus a dozen other laws into one pot and call it &ldquo;intellectual property&rdquo;. The distorting and confusing term did not become common by accident. Companies that gain from the confusion promoted it. The clearest way out of the confusion is to reject the term entirely.