Business Assets · Intellectual property · Component
The IP schedule
Every significant intangible with a rights position — what it is, what protection it carries, and where it is registered.
The deliverable
What it is
IP protection is territorial and time-limited, and both facts are routinely forgotten. A trademark registered in one market protects nothing in another.
Unregistered rights belong in the schedule too. Copyright, database rights and trade secrets exist without registration and are lost through carelessness rather than expiry.
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What it is made of
Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.
The assets
Each item of intellectual property, described by what it covers.
3 attributes: Asset · Right type · Scope
LearnThe registrations
Where each registrable right is registered, and until when.
3 attributes: Registration number · Territory · Expires
LearnThe renewals
Who renews what, when, and what it costs.
3 attributes: Renewal owner · Action by · Renewal cost
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Protection is territorial and time-limited. Both facts lose rights quietly, and both are known well in advance.
The other components in intellectual property
The ownership evidence
The documents that establish who actually owns what — contractor assignments above all, which are where ownership most often fails.
LearnThe licence obligations
What the organisation is bound by through what it has built on — third-party terms that follow the product wherever it goes.
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