This article clearly explains the effect of patents on fruit. Its only error, that I can see, is to use the term "intellectual property" to refer to patents and trademarks. Since the article clearly explains trademarks as well, you can see what an error it is to use any term to lump them together.

I have not used the term "intellectual property" even once since 2004. In explaining the various disparate laws that term supposedly "refers" to, that term is never helpful, and the idea of generalizing about those laws is the biggest obstacle.