The Internet of Things (IoT) has heralded a never-before-seen quantity of high-quality data. This includes both personal and non-personal data. Factual and legal control over IoT data gives companies unparalleled power to influence consumers, policy makers, and the other stake-holders of the...

This chapter will present the main intellectual property (IP) issues in the Internet of Things (IoT) and concentrate on one of them, that has been framed as ‘death of ownership’ by Joshua Fairfield in Owned, a seminal book that will provide an initial framework to understand this issue....