Intellectual Property Management

BC-840 Level 1 Cross-Industry 1 providers 13 API surfaces

Patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, licensing.

Intellectual Property Management (BC-840) is a level-1 business capability in the Cross-Industry model. The catalog holds 13 API surface(s) from 1 provider(s) that can perform some part of it. Reach is the vendor surface that lands on this capability — it is not a claim about what any particular organisation has deployed.

Where this capability definition comes from. This capability is part of a published business-architecture model that API Evangelist did not author. It is redistributed here under CC-BY-4.0. Turbo EA Capabilities by Vincent Verdet — Turbo EA, https://github.com/vincentmakes/turbo-ea-capabilities, CC BY 4.0 Changes: Consolidated from 333 per-L1 YAML files into one JSON; English only (upstream i18n/ omitted); descriptions whitespace-normalised. No capability was added, removed, renamed or re-parented. Source repository · NOTICE and third-party framework attributions

Sub-capabilities

Patent Portfolio Management BC-840.10

Patent strategy, filing, maintenance, portfolio review.

1 provider, 7 API surfaces

Trademark Management BC-840.20

Trademark filing, watch, defence.

1 provider, 1 API surface

Copyright & Trade Secret Management BC-840.30

Copyrighted assets, trade secrets, confidentiality.

no catalog coverage

IP Licensing Management BC-840.40

In-licensing, out-licensing, royalties.

no catalog coverage

IP Defence & Enforcement BC-840.50

Infringement detection, enforcement actions.

1 provider, 2 API surfaces

Providers that reach this capability

Ordered by rating band. Reach means a provider publishes an API surface that can perform some part of this capability — it is not a claim that any particular organisation has deployed it.

This page carries no rating. Capabilities are not rated. A capability is a description of what a business does, not a thing a company publishes, so a Kin Score would have nothing to measure.
The edge table is a Pro feature. This page shows which providers and tags reach Intellectual Property Management. The underlying tag → capability edges — each with the quoted fragment of the provider's own OpenAPI that evidences it, a calibrated confidence score, and the contract-provenance gate it passed — are available through the API, along with company-level capability maps. Only edges at confidence ≥ 0.7 with evidence found verbatim in the source contract are published at all.

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