Hi,
while sorting and moving stuff in the business I stumbled upon “IP” i.e. trademarks and patents and wondered if there is a dedicated place for this already in the upcoming small business package.
While I think that patents might not be a regular case for small businesses, I guess that having a protected trademark is not that unusual.
I’m a bit undecided if I should put these into 20-29 or 30-39. Or maybe I should split them up? Trademarks feel more like marketing et.al. and patents more like “equipment / stock” in a broader sense.
Any thoughts on this?
Kind regards,
Jens
We’ve put IP next to the thing it protects, which will be at
20-29 Get it ready
Anything related to getting your core product or service ready to sell.
21 
Products & services
This category is all about planning, defining, developing, and protecting your core products and/or services.
– then depending on the structure of your business you might have an ID per product within 21, and structured subfolders-per-product.
Compare with 11.11 Structure & registrations where you might store business-level trademark stuff.
And this is a nice example of where we’ve explained some of our reasoning with the ‘further reading’ Why is my product IP not here?
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Thanks for the pointer! It makes much sense and it aligns pretty much with what I was rolling around in my head meanwhile. 
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