Ask the average lawyer what “intellectual property law” means and you’ll likely get an answer that includes something about federal copyright, patent and trademark laws. Intellectual property is often thought of as the exclusive domain of federal law, and in some areas it is, but intellectual property practitioners know that it also includes a host of state laws.
State copyright statutes still govern certain older works of authorship, state trademark statutes exist side by side with the Lanham Act and state statutes and common law may provide protection to intellectual property under theories including unfair competition, trade secret or even trespass or conversion.
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