Intellectual property
Intellectual property keeps a Startup’s trademarks, patents, Domains and handles as one register, with deadlines and renewals watched.
Intellectual property keeps a Startup’s trademarks, patents, Domains and handles in one register, with every deadline and renewal watched. A renewal arrives as a Task months ahead, never as a lapse.
Summary
| Part | This System |
|---|---|
| Group | Legal and corporate |
| Status | Beta: it works, and its Verbs may still change |
| Shelf | Front: offered from a Startup’s first days |
You can ask:
- “Register my trademark”
- “Is this name already taken?”
- “When do our domains renew?”
- “Claim our handle on Instagram”
What you get
| Part | This System |
|---|---|
| Starts | On for every Startup at creation, with nothing to install. |
| Built from | Database, Workflows, Trademark filings, Patent filings |
Nouns it owns
| Noun | Definition |
|---|---|
| Brand | A Brand is a name, a voice, a logo, and a style under which a Startup makes Offers. |
| Domain | A Domain is a hostname that points at a Thing, with a role, a status, and a lifecycle tracked as data. |
| Handle | A Handle is an account or name a Startup or Brand holds on an outside platform, bound to an Integration credential. |
Verbs
| Verb | Object | Approval | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brand.clear | Brand | None | Brand.cleared |
| Domain.register | Domain | Asks first; waits 1 business hour | Domain.registered |
| Domain.renew | Domain | Asks first; waits 1 business hour | Domain.renewed |
| Handle.connect | Handle | Asks first | Handle.connected |
Events
| Direction | Event | How |
|---|---|---|
| Emits | Brand.cleared | By Brand.clear |
| Emits | Domain.registered | By Domain.register |
| Emits | Domain.renewed | By Domain.renew |
| Emits | Handle.connected | By Handle.connect |
| Emits | Domain.renewalDue | Raised when a date passes |
| Emits | Domain.expired | Raised when a date passes |
States
The lifecycle of a Domain:
| State | Meaning | Moves to |
|---|---|---|
candidate (first) | A name found by search that no one here holds yet. | held by Domain.register; registered by Domain.register; claimed by Domain.claim; connected by Domain.connect |
held | Registered to the holding Company and not yet assigned to a Startup. | claimed by Domain.claim; released by Domain.release |
claimed | Assigned to a Startup: a label under an issuing Domain, or a held Domain. | live by Domain.verify; released by Domain.release |
registered | Registered to its owner of record and pointed at the Startup’s address. | verifying by Domain.verify |
connected | Attached from another registrar while its ownership proof is checked. | verifying by Domain.verify |
verifying | Its first DNS, ownership and certificate checks are running. | live by Domain.verify; degraded by Domain.verify |
live | Serving, with its DNS, ownership and certificate checks passing. | degraded by Domain.verify; expiring on Domain.renewalDue; renewed by Domain.renew; transferred by Domain.transfer; released by Domain.release |
degraded | A check failed; a degraded canonical Domain opens an Incident. | live by Domain.verify; released by Domain.release |
expiring | Inside its renewal window with no renewal yet. | renewed by Domain.renew; lapsed on Domain.expired |
lapsed | Its registration ended unrenewed, and the registrar may still restore it. | renewed by Domain.renew; released by Domain.release |
renewed | Extended by whole years at its renewal price. | live by Domain.verify |
transferred | Moved to another holder or registrar, with its record and history kept. | None: it ends here. |
released | Its registration or claim ended, and its record, history and aliases are kept. | None: it ends here. |
Who operates it
| Part | This System |
|---|---|
| Accountable | Legal Lead |
| Team | Legal Team |
| Seat | A role agent holds it until a Human is seated. |
| Autonomy | assist |
| Also calls its Verbs | Integration Engineer |
Approvals and limits
| Verb | Rule | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Domain.register | A person says yes first | Waits 1 business hour |
| Domain.renew | A person says yes first | Waits 1 business hour |
| Handle.connect | A person says yes first | None. |
Processes that use it
None.
Rail underneath
None.
Views and dashboards
| View | Shows | Metrics |
|---|---|---|
| The Legal Lead’s view | The Metrics its accountable Role answers for. | Standard-terms share |
Access
What each Access level may call here.
| Access level | May call |
|---|---|
owner | Every Verb (18) |
admin | All but 2 of 18: Domain.register, Domain.renew |
member | All but 2 of 18: Domain.register, Domain.renew |
viewer | Read only (6 of 18) |
Import and export
None.
Fees and pricing
Government filing fees and registry renewals pass through at cost, each posted as its own Entry.
Availability and limits
| Part | This System |
|---|---|
| Status | Beta: it works, and its Verbs may still change |
Compliance notes
Every deadline and renewal is watched and raised as a Task; what to file stays the founder’s.
Controls it carries:
Related Systems
Example
A Directory of indie games registers its name as a trademark in two classes and holds the matching Domains and handles. Intellectual property watches for similar filings. When one appears, the Legal Lead Agent drafts an opposition before the window closes.