A creative work, or a device or invention that can be patented or copyrighted. Different knowledges have been variously adopted, reworked, and contested at different scales, including attempts to defend and (re)construct more collective notions of knowledge and property (S. Wright, U. Newcastle, UK). ‘Endemic healing floras and native intellectual property diffused back and forth between Europe and the colonies, transforming forever the geography of tropical plant pharmacopoeias and folk healing traditions’ (Voeks (2004) AAAG 99, 4). Intellectual property rights laws are best understood as particular, culturally defined systems for codifying knowledge, employed to discipline objects, phenomena, and social relations (Parry (2002) Antipode 34, 4).