Agent Skills / Headcount - Legal Risk
Intellectual Property
From the headcount AI org chart for Claude Code
Covers what the organization owns and what it is only borrowing — trademarks and clearance, copyright and work-for-hire, patents and trade secrets, open-source license obligations and copyleft reach, and IP terms in customer, contractor and AI-tool agreements. Use this to check whether a name is usa
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Intellectual property Most IP damage is done quietly and early — by a name adopted without a search, a contractor agreement missing an assignment clause, or a dependency added without reading its license. All three are cheap to prevent and expensive to unwind. This structures the questions and the recurring failure patterns. IP rights are jurisdictional, deadline-driven and fact-specific — get qualified counsel before adopting a name, filing anyt…