Whose name an application is filed in determines what happens later when the mark is assigned, sold or valued. This category deals with the questions that depend on company structure: whether you can file as an individual before setting up a company, how filing and portfolio management work in limited and joint stock companies, and when registering through a sole proprietorship makes sense.
For growing companies we also treat the mark as an asset to be managed: the protection steps a startup should complete before a funding round, earning revenue from a trademark through a licence agreement, the contractual and trademark foundations of a franchise system, and how trademark valuation is reflected in the balance sheet.