# source/domain-registers/ideas-creativity-and-research.v1.yaml

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    register_version: life-course-domain-register.v1
    pack_id: pack-7-civic-enterprise-creativity
    domain: ideas-creativity-and-research
    title: Ideas, creativity and research
    status: population_complete
    observed_at: "2026-08-08"
    link_receipts: evaluation/link-receipts/pack-7-civic-enterprise-creativity-2026-08-08
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      snapshots_acquired: false
      source_response_bodies_retained: false
      publication_allowed: false
      rights_policy: link_and_summarize_source_family_decisions_recorded
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      observed_at: "2026-08-08"
      checksum: not_applicable_no_snapshot
    _family_defaults: &family_defaults
      primary_jurisdictions: [England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland]
      specialist_review: required
    route_sources:
      - <<: *source_defaults
        id: ideas-research-scotland-handoff
        jurisdiction: Scotland
        title: Business support in Scotland
        owner: Scottish Government
        authority_role: scotland_innovation_support_handoff
        resource: https://www.mygov.scot/business-support
        coverage: Routes creators and organisations to current Scottish innovation, research and business-support services.
        exclusions: Does not assess intellectual property, decide grant eligibility, select a university route or commercialise research.
      - <<: *source_defaults
        id: ideas-research-wales-handoff
        jurisdiction: Wales
        title: Business support for innovation in Wales
        owner: Welsh Government
        authority_role: wales_innovation_support_handoff
        resource: https://www.gov.wales/business-support-innovation
        coverage: Routes creators, researchers and organisations to current Welsh innovation support and funding routes.
        exclusions: Does not decide grant eligibility, ownership, protection, publication or commercial strategy.
      - <<: *source_defaults
        id: ideas-research-northern-ireland-handoff
        jurisdiction: Northern Ireland
        title: Starting a business in Northern Ireland
        owner: Invest Northern Ireland
        authority_role: northern_ireland_intellectual_property_handoff
        resource: https://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/starting-business
        coverage: Provides a current Northern Ireland business-discovery handoff from which organisations can reach business planning, innovation and operating guidance.
        exclusions: Does not provide a complete intellectual-property index, legal advice, searches, rights grants, asset valuation or funding decisions.
    families:
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: protect-confidential-information
        title: Protect confidential information
        aliases: [non disclosure agreement, keep invention secret, protect business know how]
        description: Identify information that should remain confidential, control disclosure and access and obtain advice on suitable agreements before sharing it.
        situations:
          - A creator, researcher or organisation needs to share or use sensitive technical or business information.
        user_needs:
          - Preserve confidentiality and future rights without contract drafting or a legal conclusion by the bundle.
        dependency: regulated-intellectual-property-or-contract-adviser
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: protect-confidential-information-primary
          title: Intellectual property and your work
          owner: Intellectual Property Office
          authority_role: uk_intellectual_property_overview
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/intellectual-property-an-overview
          coverage: Introduces UK intellectual-property categories and protection choices, including confidentiality boundaries.
          exclusions: Does not draft an agreement, decide ownership, guarantee secrecy or provide legal advice.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: search-prior-art
        title: Search prior art
        aliases: [search existing patents, check invention novelty, patent database search]
        description: Search relevant patent and technical information, record the strategy and results and obtain specialist interpretation before relying on novelty conclusions.
        situations:
          - An inventor or researcher wants to identify earlier public disclosures relevant to an idea.
        user_needs:
          - Use authoritative patent search routes without a local novelty or freedom-to-operate opinion.
        dependency: regulated-patent-attorney-or-search-professional
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: search-prior-art-primary
          title: Search for a patent
          owner: Intellectual Property Office
          authority_role: uk_patent_search_handoff
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/search-for-patent
          coverage: Routes users to UK and international patent-information search services.
          exclusions: Does not perform a complete search, interpret results, decide novelty or establish freedom to operate.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: apply-for-patent
        title: Apply for a patent
        aliases: [patent an invention, file UK patent, protect technical invention]
        description: Preserve pre-filing confidentiality, assess the protection route and use the current application, fee, search, publication and examination process.
        situations:
          - An inventor or owner is considering patent protection for a technical invention.
        user_needs:
          - Find the filing process and professional boundary without deciding patentability or strategy.
        dependency: regulated-patent-attorney
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: apply-for-patent-primary
          title: Apply for a patent
          owner: Intellectual Property Office
          authority_role: uk_patent_application_guidance
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/patent-your-invention
          coverage: Explains UK patentability overview, application, costs, search, publication and examination stages.
          exclusions: Does not assess patentability, draft claims, provide legal advice or grant a patent.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: request-patent-search-and-examination
        title: Request patent search and examination
        aliases: [request IPO patent search, substantive examination request, patent application examination]
        description: Read the filed application and official correspondence and submit the required search or examination request and fee within the stated application-specific time.
        situations:
          - A UK patent applicant needs to continue an application through search, publication or substantive examination.
        user_needs:
          - Reach the application-specific official route without the bundle calculating deadlines or drafting amendments.
        dependency: regulated-patent-attorney
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: request-patent-search-and-examination-primary
          title: Patent search, publication and examination
          owner: Intellectual Property Office
          authority_role: uk_patent_search_examination_guidance
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/patent-your-invention/request-your-search-and-examination
          coverage: Explains UK patent search, publication, examination requests and application-specific notices.
          exclusions: Does not calculate a deadline, interpret a report, draft amendments or predict grant.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: manage-copyright
        title: Manage copyright
        aliases: [protect copyrighted work, copyright ownership and permission, use creative work legally]
        description: Identify the work, ownership, term and intended use and use permission, exception, licensing or enforcement routes as applicable.
        situations:
          - A creator, user or organisation needs to understand rights in an original work or protected material.
        user_needs:
          - Navigate ownership and permission without the bundle deciding infringement, exceptions or term.
        dependency: regulated-copyright-adviser
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: manage-copyright-primary
          title: Copyright
          owner: Intellectual Property Office
          authority_role: uk_copyright_guidance
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/copyright
          coverage: Introduces UK automatic copyright, ownership, duration, licensing and infringement routes.
          exclusions: Does not decide ownership, term, subsistence, exception, infringement or remedy.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: register-trade-mark
        title: Register a trade mark
        aliases: [protect brand name, file UK trademark, register logo or mark]
        description: Search relevant marks and classifications, select the goods or services and use the application, examination, publication and opposition route.
        situations:
          - A person or organisation wants registered protection for a brand sign in the United Kingdom.
        user_needs:
          - Find the official route without clearance, classification or conflict advice from the bundle.
        dependency: regulated-trade-mark-attorney
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: register-trade-mark-primary
          title: How to register a trade mark
          owner: Intellectual Property Office
          authority_role: uk_trade_mark_registration_guidance
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/how-to-register-a-trade-mark
          coverage: Explains UK search, classification, application, examination, publication and opposition stages.
          exclusions: Does not clear a mark, select classes, provide legal advice or guarantee registration.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: register-design
        title: Register a design
        aliases: [protect product appearance, file registered design, UK design registration]
        description: Identify the visual features and ownership, preserve novelty where required and use the current application, examination and registration route.
        situations:
          - A creator or organisation wants registered protection for a product's appearance.
        user_needs:
          - Distinguish registered, unregistered and other rights without a local validity decision.
        dependency: regulated-design-or-intellectual-property-adviser
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: register-design-primary
          title: Register a design
          owner: Intellectual Property Office
          authority_role: uk_registered_design_service
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/register-a-design
          coverage: Explains UK registered-design eligibility, application, fees, examination and publication.
          exclusions: Does not assess novelty, ownership, scope, infringement or guarantee registration.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: license-intellectual-property
        title: License intellectual property
        aliases: [IP licence agreement, allow others to use rights, license patent trademark copyright]
        description: Confirm ownership and scope, define the rights and territory to be licensed and obtain advice on terms, registration, payment and enforcement.
        situations:
          - A rights owner or user wants permission to exploit intellectual property.
        user_needs:
          - Find the transaction and register boundaries without contract drafting, valuation or negotiation by the bundle.
        dependency: regulated-intellectual-property-and-commercial-adviser
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: license-intellectual-property-primary
          title: Licensing intellectual property
          owner: Intellectual Property Office
          authority_role: uk_intellectual_property_licensing_guidance
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/licensing-intellectual-property
          coverage: Introduces UK intellectual-property licensing, assignments, valuation and professional-support handoffs.
          exclusions: Does not verify ownership, value rights, draft terms, provide tax advice or decide enforceability.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: apply-for-innovation-grant
        title: Apply for an innovation grant
        aliases: [Innovate UK grant, research innovation funding, apply for business R&D funding]
        description: Find a current competition, confirm its scope and applicant rules and submit the required proposal, budget, partners and declarations.
        situations:
          - A business, researcher or collaboration seeks public funding for innovation.
        user_needs:
          - Find current competitions without the bundle judging eligibility, quality or award prospects.
        dependency: regulated-grant-accounting-or-bid-adviser
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: apply-for-innovation-grant-primary
          title: Apply for innovation funding
          owner: Innovate UK
          authority_role: uk_innovation_funding_handoff
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/apply-funding-innovation
          coverage: Routes UK businesses and research organisations to current government-backed innovation funding search and application services.
          exclusions: Does not identify every fund, decide eligibility, write an application or predict award.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: use-university-technology-transfer
        title: Use university technology transfer
        aliases: [university invention disclosure, research commercialisation office, academic technology transfer]
        description: Follow the institution's disclosure and ownership policy, engage its technology-transfer function and agree protection, licensing or spin-out decisions.
        situations:
          - Research or intellectual property connected to a university may have commercial or wider-use potential.
        user_needs:
          - Find the institutional process while preserving funder, employment, collaborator and ownership boundaries.
        dependency: university-technology-transfer-office-and-regulated-advisers
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: use-university-technology-transfer-primary
          title: University and business collaboration agreements
          owner: Intellectual Property Office
          authority_role: uk_university_business_ip_agreement_guidance
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/university-and-business-collaboration-agreements-lambert-toolkit
          coverage: Provides UK model collaboration guidance and prompts for university-business intellectual-property arrangements.
          exclusions: Does not establish institution policy, decide ownership, disclose an invention or negotiate a transaction.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: publish-research
        title: Publish research
        aliases: [open access publication, submit research paper, share research outputs]
        description: Confirm authorship, ethics, funder, data, confidentiality and rights constraints before selecting a publication and preservation route.
        situations:
          - A researcher or organisation wants to communicate research outputs publicly.
        user_needs:
          - Place publication within ethics, open-access, confidentiality, data and intellectual-property processes.
        dependency: institution-research-office-publisher-and-specialist-advisers
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: publish-research-primary
          title: FCDO open access policy
          owner: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
          authority_role: uk_public_research_open_access_policy_example
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fcdo-open-access-policy/fcdo-open-access-policy
          coverage: Provides a current authoritative example of publication and open-access requirements for research funded by a UK government department.
          exclusions: Does not cover every funder or institution, select a journal, confirm compliance, review ethics, licence content or publish an output.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: commercialise-research
        title: Commercialise research
        aliases: [turn research into business, research spinout, license university invention]
        description: Confirm ownership, obligations and evidence, assess protection and routes to impact and use the institution, funder and regulated-adviser process.
        situations:
          - Research results may support licensing, a spin-out, collaboration, public deployment or another route to impact.
        user_needs:
          - Navigate ownership, funding, valuation, regulation and conflicts without commercial or investment advice.
        dependency: university-technology-transfer-office-and-regulated-commercial-advisers
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: commercialise-research-primary
          title: Funding to develop and exploit knowledge assets
          owner: HM Treasury
          authority_role: uk_public_sector_knowledge_asset_handoff
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/get-funding-to-develop-and-exploit-knowledge-assets
          coverage: Illustrates a UK public-sector route for developing and commercialising eligible knowledge assets.
          exclusions: Does not cover every university or private route, decide ownership or eligibility, value assets or provide investment advice.