Intellectual property · The IP schedule · Element
The renewals
Who renews what, when, and what it costs.
The part
What it is
Renewal is a small administrative act with a large consequence, and it fails when the person who did it leaves.
A schedule with a named owner and a reminder is the whole of what is needed, and its absence is common.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.