You keep mixing up stuff and framing things incorrectly, sadly. What you keep talking about is simply a claim on being the first one to bring forth a particular arrangement of information. Indeed, an author has that claim and that's why falsely claiming authorship is frowned upon and reputation lost. Absolutely nothing to do with anything we're talking about, still.
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Intellectual property is that, and more.
It is the right to commercially produce the product you have developed.