IP

IP is an acronym for:

Intellectual property -- a legal metaphor encompassing copyright, patent, trademark, and trade secret law

Internet protocol -- the computer networking protocol used on the Internet

Instruction pointer -- the computer processor (CPU) register indicating the current instruction

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