How was the object of the property to be identified and its limits defined?

International Intellectual Property Law

Intellectual Property Rights : Introduction:
Introduction
• 1.1 Sources of Intellectual Property Rights
• 1.2 Nature of Exclusive Rights
• 1.3 Intellectual Property and free Movement
• 1.4 Competition
• Intellectual Property law regulates the creation, use and exploitation of mental or creative labour.
• In granting property status to intangibles, the question arises as to how and where the boundary lines of the intangible property are to be determined.
• Once it was accepted that the law should grant property rights over intangibles – how was the object of the property to be identified and its limits defined?
• One of the defining features of intangible property is that reference points which define tangible property  do not exist.