Can we move Lightroom from PC to a new laptop?

It is unclear whether you’re asking about permission to put LR on a new computer, or more about the details of the process of moving things from one computer to the other.
As far as licensing and program installation, you are allowed as a single user to use LR on two different computers as long as you’re not using the two computers at the same time, so you can just download and install the latest update for whatever version you are using on your old computer to the new computer and input your serial number, again. If you are transferring LR5 then there is no update, just install from the original media or download the Try version to the new computer and input the serial number.
You can also move your catalog database file and images over to a new computer, but the exact details of that depend on where the images and catalog are on the old computer compared to where you want them on your new computer. Generally if you put them in the same relative locations then about all you’ll need to do is hook up the top-level folders with Locate Missing Folder command available from the right-click menu on each top-level folder The process will be easier if you actually move all your folders under as few of top-level folders as possible from within LR on the old computer before moving things to the new computer.
If you’ve created custom presets and/or installed LR plug-ins those will need to be moved or re-installed on the new so take stock of where all these are before you start the move.

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