The German equivalent was used with the founding of the North German Confederation whose constitution granted legislative power over the protection of intellectual property (Schutz des geistigen Eigentums) to the confederation. When the administrative secretariats established by the Paris Convention (1883) and the Berne Convention (1886) merged in 1893, they located in Berne, and also adopted the term intellectual property in their new combined title, the United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property. 

The term can be found used in an October 1845 Massachusetts Circuit Court ruling in the patent case Davoll et al. v. Brown., in which Justice Charles L. Woodbury wrote that "only in this way can we protect intellectual property, the labors of the mind, productions and interests are as much a man's own...as the wheat he cultivates, or the flocks he rears." The statement that "discoveries are...property" goes back earlier. Section 1 of the French law of 1791 stated, "All new discoveries are the property of the author; to assure the inventor the property and temporary enjoyment of his discovery, there shall be delivered to him a patent for five, ten or fifteen years." In Europe, French author A. Nion mentioned propriété intellectuelle in his Droits civils des auteurs, artistes et inventeurs, published in 1846.
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legislative
whose constitution granted legislative power 
protection of intellectual property
onstitution granted legislative power over the protection of intellectual property
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administrative secretariats established by the Paris Convention (1883) and the Berne Convention 
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by the Paris Convention (1883) and the Berne Convention
the Paris Convention
e administrative secretariats established by the Paris Convention (1883
1883
the Paris Convention (1883
1886
 the Berne Convention (1886)
Berne
 merged in 1893, they located in Berne
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nd also adopted the term intellectual property in their new combined title
the term intellectual property
also adopted the term intellectual property in their new combined title
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The term can be found used in an October 1845 Massachusetts Circuit Court ruling in the patent case Davoll et al. v. Brown
Massachusetts Circuit Court ruling
The term can be found used in an October 1845 Massachusetts Circuit Court r
Davoll et al. v. Brown.
in the patent case Davoll et al. v. Brown.
Justice Charles L. Woodbury
Davoll et al. v. Brown., in which Justice Charles L. Woodbury
1845
The term can be found used in an October 1845 