Patents, copyright, trademarks, and designs—the stuff of intellectual property, or “a commercially valuable product of the human intellect, in a concrete or abstract form such as a copyrightable work, a protectable trademark, a patentable invention, or a trade secret,” to quote Black’s Law Dictionary. If you’ve ever written a book, that’s intellectual property. If you own a franchise, it also qualifies. If you’ve trademarked a slogan, bingo.