What is background intellectual property and how is it distinguished from project intellectual property?
Background intellectual property is intellectual property that already exists and is clearly identifiable, and which is being used in a new project. For example, a research project may be undertaken to validate the claims made in a provisional patent. The technology described in the patent would be the background intellectual property in this case, and the results from the validation study would be the project intellectual property.
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