is a legal umbrella covering protections that involve copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and patents for &"creations of the mind&" developed by people or businesses
the intellectual property code of the philippines (also, known as the ip code) - the overall law protecting copyrights and all kinds of intellectual property creations including patents and trademarks.
powerful classifiers, which utilize a tree structure to model the relationships among the features and the potential outcomes -nonparametric -tendency to overfit -can be pre-pruned or post-pruned