Draft IP assignment agreements that hold up at diligence
Use Gixo when a founder, employee, or contractor needs an IP assignment draft shaped by pre-existing IP carve-outs, moral rights, work-product ownership, and post-assignment cooperation before counsel review.
What a useful IP assignment draft needs
The job is not to ask AI for a legal answer. The job is to prepare a draft or artifact that a qualified reviewer can actually work with.
The draft shape changes by scenario: founder-incorporation assignment, employee invention-assignment, and contractor work-for-hire each have distinct structures.
Capture prior inventions, open-source dependencies, and personal-project carve-outs in a structured schedule rather than a free-text afterthought.
Include moral-rights waivers where applicable (UK, EU, India, Canada) so attribution and integrity rights do not surface during later diligence or M&A.
Handle open-source license obligations, third-party-component flagging, and software-specific work-product rules that template agreements usually miss.
Capture further-assurances language, signature obligation for patent prosecution, power-of-attorney appointments, and remedies for non-cooperation.
Comments, review state, assignees, due dates, versions, and exports stay attached to the same document.
How IP assignment drafting works
Founder assigning IP into a newly-formed entity, employee assigning inventions, or contractor assigning work product — each generates a different shape.
Identify the parties, list the prior inventions in the carve-out schedule, and flag any third-party or open-source dependencies.
Add further-assurances, moral-rights handling, signature-on-demand obligations, and remedies for breach before counsel review.
Route to corporate counsel or outside diligence team inside the workspace, then export in PDF, DOCX, HTML, and TXT for signature.
How Gixo compares
| Capability | Gixo | Incorporation template | Generic AI | Corporate counsel |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Founder vs employee vs contractor variants | Three first-class shapes | One generic form | Variable | Yes |
| Pre-existing IP carve-out schedule | Structured | Free text only | Variable | Yes |
| Moral rights handling by jurisdiction | Yes | Rare | Unreliable | Yes |
| Open-source and third-party flagging | Built in | No | Variable | Yes |
| Post-assignment cooperation language | Structured | Generic | Variable | Yes |