State laws that protect intellectual property include Patents. This law protects many things that emerge from a thought coming from the establishment of something that is tangible. For instance, this can be as simple as paperclip invention to something that may be sophisticated like a hard drive of the computer. The second law trademarks which offer protection to those tangible kinds of stuff that either identify or brand something. For example, the name of an organization, product name or slogan can be trademarked for the purpose of inhibiting others to use them. The third state law is the trade secrets which means those things that an organization’s stores to remain confidential. They serve to protect commodities that are intangible commodities that are so valuable hence will create competition. One of the federal laws that protect property is the property clause: Where the Congress has been given the power to make rules and regulations respecting all the properties that belong to individual citizens. Both state laws and federal laws work together to protect one’s property.