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When people think about estate planning, they usually focus on tangible assets — homes, bank accounts, and retirement funds. But for many individuals and families in Honolulu and across Hawaiʻi, some of their most meaningful assets are intangible: business ideas, creative works, brand names, written content, music, inventions, or digital products. This type of property — known as intellectual property (IP) — is often overlooked. And when it’s left out of an estate plan, it ca