Invention record

Boundary decision

Filing sequence

Portfolio relation

Retained subject matter

Is the unit being protected a product, a feature, or an invention?

One product may contain several independently traceable technical transformations; one transformation may appear across product versions.

Which material is observable and which can remain confidential?

User-visible behavior, public interfaces, and detectable system effects are different from internal data, parameters, and operating know-how.

What remains after the first filing and claim set?

Disclosure may support more paths than the first examined claims select. Unselected support is neither automatically abandoned nor automatically available.

Decision objectQuestion recordedResulting artifact

Invention unitWhich technical transformation is distinct from the surrounding product?Invention map

Disclosure chronologyWhat was shared, when, where, and under what access condition?Date and disclosure log

Protection modeWhich parts are observable, reverse-engineerable, or maintainable as confidential know-how?Patent / trade-secret boundary record

Filing vehicleWhich subject matter belongs in provisional, non-provisional, continuation, or international sequences?Filing sequence

JurisdictionWhere will the product, competitors, manufacturing, or enforcement facts occur?Jurisdiction matrix

Continuation inventoryWhich supported paths remain outside the current claim set?Retained-subject-matter ledger

Portfolio relationHow do filings share technical objects, dates, and product boundaries?Family and dependency map

SourceRelationTargetConsequence

Disclosure eventoccurs before / afterFiling eventThe relation is evaluated by date, audience, access condition, and jurisdiction—not by memory.

Invention unitappears inProduct + filing familyTechnical overlap and legal family relation are recorded separately.

Supported subject matterselected as / retained outsideCurrent claim pathThe present selection does not erase the rest of the supported technical model.

Chronology

Disclosure, filing, publication, and product dates kept in one ordered record.

Boundary map

Observable system behavior separated from internal parameters and operational know-how.

Subject-matter ledger

Claimed, disclosed-but-unclaimed, and future work identified separately.

Family map

Priority, continuation, jurisdiction, and technical overlap represented as explicit relations.