Licensing or commercialization
When a third party needs confidence that the rights being offered are clear, controlled, and transferable.
Intellectual Property • International Business • AI-Era Ownership
Creation is becoming abundant. Ownership is becoming the premium.
Aurelia Mitchell Durant helps founders, executives, creators, and IP-led organizations understand what they own, what they can prove, and whether that ownership can support licensing, growth, partnerships, and long-term enterprise value.
Partner at Rimon Practicing since 1999 IP, licensing, international business, media & AI
Partner, Rimon
25+ yearsin legal practice
PartnerRimon IP practice
U.S. + internationalportfolio and commercialization experience
Teacher + speakerCLE, workshops, panels, and higher education
The Business Question
Protection is not the same as proof.
A company may have trademarks, content, contracts, data, methods, creative assets, and valuable commercial relationships, and still be unable to demonstrate clear ownership or transferability when an opportunity arises. Contractor arrangements, collaborators, vendors, legacy agreements, AI-assisted production, and international expansion can create gaps that ordinary filing-by-filing legal work does not reveal.
The strategic question is not merely whether an asset is protected. It is whether the business can prove, control, transfer, and understand what it believes it owns.
Where the Question Becomes Urgent
Ownership gaps surface at the worst possible moment.
Ownership gaps often become visible when a business prepares to license, raise capital, enter a new market, sign a major partnership, expand a brand, resolve a dispute, adopt AI-enabled production, or undergo diligence. The better time to understand those gaps is before the opportunity requires an immediate answer.
Expansion or partnership
When new markets, collaborators, channels, or platforms put old agreements and territorial rights under pressure.
Investment or diligence
When enterprise value depends on documents, chain of title, access, and evidence—not assumptions.
Founder transition or continuity
When critical knowledge, relationships, accounts, or creative assets remain tied to one person.
About Aurelia
An attorney focused on ownership, not only filings.
Aurelia Mitchell Durant is a Partner at Rimon and an intellectual-property and international-business attorney with more than 25 years of legal experience.
Her publicly documented experience includes complex trademark, patent, and copyright matters before the USPTO, TTAB, and U.S. Copyright Office; international IP portfolio management; and licensing, financing, and brand-protection work for a multinational venture.