# Patent filings

URL: /systems/legal-and-corporate/patents · Id: `capability:patents`

> Patent filings file provisional and full applications for the Company’s inventions, naming human inventors, and keep each one maintained.

Patent filings file provisional and full applications for the [Company](/business/nouns/company)’s inventions, naming their human inventors, and keep each one prosecuted and maintained.

## Contract
| Clause | Terms |
| --- | --- |
| Starts | A disclosure [Decision](/business/nouns/decision). |
| Inventors | Natural persons only. Each inventor signs their own oath ([Sworn filings](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/sworn-filings)). |
| Filed by | A registered practitioner ([Licensed acts](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/licensed-acts)). |
| No human inventor | An [Autonomous](/agents/operating-models/autonomous) [Startup](/business/nouns/startup) publishes the invention defensively instead. |
| While held | Own. The Studio-held entity is assignee until Startup transfer. |
| Records | Each application, office action and maintenance fee in [Intellectual property](/systems/intellectual-property). |

## Verbs
None.

## Interfaces
- [API](/code/api/reference)
- [SDK](/code/sdk/reference)
- [CLI](/code/cli/reference)
- [MCP](/code/mcp/reference)

## Example
Two engineers at a sensor-calibration API disclose a drift-correction method. A provisional application files within ten days, and the full application follows eleven months later naming both.