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.
Effective
When ownership transferred, which matters where work predates an agreement.
Date shared type