    ‘Sentence & Information is the resource-extractive  industry of the next century, and the  concept of intellectual property --a term that dates  back 150 years--comes up when individuals or  companies assert a particular claim and embody it in  the form of copyrights, trademarks, and patents.    Sentence 2: Copyrights, trademarks, and patents  don't always protect you from intelectual property  theft.