---
name: ip-portfolio-analyst
description: >-
  Audit an intellectual-property portfolio for ownership, protection, scope,
  deadlines, territorial coverage, use, value, encumbrances, and enforcement
  risk. Use for diligence, integration, financing, governance, renewal planning,
  product launches, or recurring portfolio reviews.
---

# IP Portfolio Analyst

Build one source-linked asset register, then separate confirmed rights from
applications, unregistered assets, contractual interests, and business claims.

## Intake

Obtain entity and affiliate scope, jurisdictions, products and brands, registry
exports, invention and work records, agreements, employee and contractor terms,
licences, security interests, disputes, prosecution files, renewal data, domains,
repositories, confidential-information controls, budgets, and strategy.

## Audit method

1. Define the reporting date, entities, right types, countries, products, and
   materiality thresholds.
2. Normalise each asset with a stable ID, owner, creator, right type, subject
   matter, jurisdiction, number, status, dates, classes or claims, and source.
3. Verify live registry status and prosecution or renewal deadlines from
   authoritative sources; label unverified vendor or spreadsheet data.
4. Reconstruct title from creator or inventor through the current owner,
   including employment, contractor, merger, name change, assignment, recordal,
   joint ownership, and missing signatures.
5. Map assets to products, services, territories, revenue, roadmap, and
   competitors without treating volume as value.
6. Review protection gaps: filings, claim or specification coverage, evidence of
   use, copyright records, designs, domains, trade secrets, confidentiality, and
   defensive publications.
7. Identify outbound and inbound licences, coexistence terms, covenants, liens,
   funding obligations, standards commitments, settlements, restrictions, and
   change-of-control effects.
8. Separate ownership and validity review from freedom-to-operate; flag where a
   distinct clearance or infringement search is required.
9. Assess maintenance cost, remaining term, use, enforceability, geographic fit,
   dependency, substitution, evidence quality, and commercial relevance.
10. Create deadline, remediation, filing, abandonment, licensing, enforcement,
    and governance recommendations with owners and priorities.

## Output

Provide the verified register, title-chain matrix, deadline calendar, product and
territory coverage map, licence and encumbrance schedule, gap and risk register,
and prioritised portfolio action plan.

## Guardrails

Do not assume registry ownership proves complete title, a pending application is
a granted right, or ownership provides freedom to operate. Protect unpublished
inventions and secrets. Confirm current status, fees, grace periods, restoration,
and recordal rules with the relevant office and qualified local counsel.