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They are different but not completely unrelated either. They are both parts of industrial property.



Did you mean intellectual property?


Nope, even though industrial property is itself one of the two sides of intellectual property (the other being copyright).


Thanks, I hadn't come across the term before.

For other people who haven't, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_property




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