Assess whether IP is owned or merely licensed (7c2fe4)

Situation

A PE platform evaluating a founder-led SaaS add-on cannot treat a contractor who actually wrote the core code as color commentary on post-merger systems-integration risk register. Environmental diligence manager must close IP is owned or merely licensed from that extract under M&A Due Diligence / Legal, IP, and Regulatory.

Decision

Environmental diligence manager in a PE platform evaluating a founder-led SaaS add-on must choose IP is owned / Merely licensed using post-merger systems-integration risk register after a contractor who actually wrote the core code.

Hypotheses to test

• The population in post-merger systems-integration risk register is the one a contractor who actually wrote the core code named, so IP is owned follows for this Legal, IP, and Regulatory file.
• The population in post-merger systems-integration risk register is adjacent only to a contractor who actually wrote the core code; Merely licensed is the honest M&A Due Diligence call.
• A PE platform evaluating a founder-led SaaS add-on already contained a contractor who actually wrote the core code before post-merger systems-integration risk register arrived; no new Legal, IP, and Regulatory path.
• Provenance on post-merger systems-integration risk register after a contractor who actually wrote the core code is broken; do not pick IP is owned or Merely licensed yet.

Analysis required

• Test whether a contractor who actually wrote the core code is a diligence gap, a price chip, or a walk-away.
• Separate a one-off add-back from a recurring earnings issue in post-merger systems-integration risk register.
• Map reps, earnout mechanics, and integration risk a PE platform evaluating a founder-led SaaS add-on would inherit.
• For this M&A Due Diligence Legal, IP, and Regulatory file, read post-merger systems-integration risk register against a contractor who actually wrote the core code and write the one fact that would move IP is owned or merely licensed for environmental diligence manager.

Recommendation

Choose IP is owned / Merely licensed on this M&A Due Diligence / Legal, IP, and Regulatory packet (post-merger systems-integration risk register after a contractor who actually wrote the core code). The follow-on Legal, IP, and Regulatory action is what environmental diligence manager does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.