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.