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Rights Management on Every Desktop

Microsoft's April licensing of the InterTrust Digital Rights Management Patents for $440 million highlights the strategic value of rights management infrastructure in the world of business to business, business to consumer and consumer software applications today.  System 7 Universal Rights Management stands alone as a Business Rights Management application capable of fully supporting automation of rights creation, segregation and application as part of an industrial contract workflow process.  This capability offers intrinsic value in Business to Business rights management scenarios, in which exclusivity, non-exclusivity and co-exclusivity restrictions to intellectual asset use are subject to change with each new acquisition, sale or proprietary grant.  

System 7 standardizes rights management administration across all types of contracts, properties and business models within Intellectual Property Management.  System 7 is built upon a Universal Contract Database, Custom Rights Framework and Dynamic Workflow Management foundation designed to enable an unlimited variety of configuration possibilities.  Moreover, these configurations may be differentiated and cross-referenced by workgroup, department or IP development project.

For many years, attempts at producing useful standards for data management in this area have faltered due to an endemic lack of software products capable of cutting across the demands of various forms of intellectual property licensing models.  Various committees and marketing initiatives have been born whose goal was to dramatically expand the selling opportunities in the field, which then faltered when the marketplace realized that the "metadata model" in question, was either too simplistic or too inflexible.

Jaguar believes that after 20 years and hundreds of clients, System 7's Custom Rights Framework (CRF) is now ready for acceptance as that standard.  CRF defines licensed Assets, Territories, Rights, Restrictions, Distribution Channels, Contractual Parties, Languages and Deal Types in an unlimited combination of levels and interrelationships.  For anyone actively working in the IP field, such a requirement has always been apparent, the deficiency has been in evolving a software system capable of bringing such information to life.

Each intellectual property class has evolved business practices and relationships that are particular to the creative, production and distribution methodologies required to impact ultimate consumer demand.  The data fundamentals of asset, territory/language, exclusivity, use, rights window, release dates, market outlet and financial participant remain constant in all situations.  The variability comes in the form of parent/child relationships in all phases of origination, combination, initial market release, secondary exploitation and re-creation.  In other words, television licensing may specify the precise television station or localized advertising market within a region, within a country, within a language group, within a continent, within a hemisphere.  Book publishing would start with a language within a country, within a distribution zone.  In today's cross-licensing world, a single standard must handle both situations and countless more to be of any practical value.

In System 7, a concise set of rights definitions with a proven track record of administrative success has been achieved.  Seven generations of direct client design input were required to bring CRF to fruition.  CRF now forms the core of System 7's unique integration of contract administration, rights management and business accounting for intellectual property management.  This standard can now reach millions of desktops across patents, copyrights, trademark, permissions, brand management, proprietary works, likeness and franchise contract applications.  Standards can enable communications and analysis opportunities that are presently considered to be elusive.  Just as Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer have brought countless benefits through the sheer power of consistency, CRF represents that opportunity for all who are touched by the use of intellectual property in its endless variety of legal and practical forms.

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