policy
assignment
Work belongs to whoever made it until a document says otherwise. Where two people build together, that question has no clean answer and a long tail of trouble.
So assignment is written at the point of creation, naming the maker and the date, with joint work recorded as joint, and every entry on the register names whoever made it.
record
A company that cannot say what it holds is not holding anything. The register carries every asset, its class, status, jurisdiction and month of record, published whole rather than summarised into a number.
Where the company’s rights are limited, the limit is printed on the record rather than kept on a legal page nobody reads.
licensing
The company would rather license a thing than sit on it, so terms are negotiated case by case; there is no rate card, because against three records a rate card would be fiction.
Where a mark is licensed out, the company keeps the quality-control obligations attached to it. A trademark owner who licenses without exercising control abandons the mark — naked licensing makes it unenforceable against everyone, not just the licensee.
exclusions
The company does not buy intellectual property in order to assert it, does not send demand letters, and has filed no proceedings against anyone; if any of that changes, this page will say so.
None of which is offered as a moral position.