"For instance, one issue relating to copyright law is whether music sharing should be allowed. Patent law has nothing to do with this. Patent law raises issues such as whether poor countries should be allowed to produce life-saving drugs and sell them cheaply to save lives. Copyright law has nothing to do with such matters."<p>I don't know how that remotely refutes the umbrella term "intellectual property." Is there really such a huge difference between laws that make it illegal reproduce and sell music created by somebody else and laws that make it illegal to reproduce and sell drugs designed by somebody else that we can't put them in the same category? Perhaps he has a point with trademarks, but the differences between patents and copyrights don't seem to be much greater than the differences between burglary and embezzlement laws.