IP
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Intellectual Property.
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Internet Protocol: a communications protocol for computers connected to a network, especially the internet, specifying the format for addresses and units of transmitted data.
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internet protocol: a code used to label packets of data sent across the internet, identifying both the sending and the receiving computers
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law intellectual property
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Short for Internet Protocol. A protocol that specifies the way data is broken into packets and the way those packets are addressed for transmission.
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See more at TCP/IP
Example Sentences
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Two of the biggest box-office standouts of 2026 so far were not made by established studio directors or built on franchise IP.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2026
Some downloads, it says, were coordinated among several Meta IP addresses, all based on the same algorithmic keywords and occurring simultaneously, suggesting that the infringements “took place within Meta’s walls.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2026
He said the one particular plot point "is revived and resolved in a very spurious and unsatisfying way", adding that "IP exhaustion has set in" on the franchise.
From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026
Now, I will never do a restaurant that I don’t own a piece of the IP of.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
“That’s not all. Malik and I were hanging out the other day and did more research. We found out Rapid’s IP address doesn’t trace to the Garden.”
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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