Intellectual property · The ownership evidence · Element

The chain

How the organisation came to own each asset, document by document.

The part

What it is

A complete chain runs from creator to current owner without a break. A single missing assignment breaks it entirely.

Acquired assets carry the acquirer’s chain problems, which is why diligence looks at this and internal reviews rarely do.

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.