Given that three of the four kinds of intellectual property are mentioned (and simultaneously conflated) in one statement, I think the author was trying for a s

Given that three of the four kinds of intellectual property are mentioned (and simultaneously conflated) in one statement, I think the author was trying for a satirical statement about intellectual property... but this falls hard into Poe's Law territory, I just can't tell if it was meant to be satire or if it was actually an honest belief.