The OED has citations of "intellectual property" in English back to 1769. There's an 1855 book by Lysander Spooner[1] called The Law of Intellectual Property.[

The OED has citations of "intellectual property" in English back to 1769. There's an 1855 book by Lysander Spooner[1] called The Law of Intellectual Property.[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner [2] http://books.google.com/books?id=lS82AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 http://books.google.com/books?id=lS82AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1