Design Pattern · September 2026
Invention provenance record
Keep a dated record of human insight, source material, AI assistance, experiments, decisions, and claimed contribution.
Under the pillar From Product to Rights
Chronology
Record the original problem, human observations, contributors, sources, material prompts and outputs, adopted and rejected alternatives, experiments, customer evidence, code or design records, and milestones.
Use
Connect each material choice to the evidence and person responsible for it.
Output
Maintain a reviewable chronology that can be given to counsel and diligence teams.
Boundary
The record does not determine inventorship or ownership.
Put this to work
Invention provenance record application record
Apply Invention provenance record to a real piece of work and record what happened.
- For
- Founders, product owners, inventors, and counsel preparing an initial rights discussion.
- What you keep
- A invention provenance record application record you can review, revise, and send.
- What counts as sound
- Names a real setting
- Shows the work before and after
- Records exceptions
- Uses an observable result
- Ends with keep, revise, or stop
This is a research screen, not legal advice or a patentability opinion.
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