Your Business May Not Own What You Think You Own
Understand the gaps created by founders, contractors, agencies, collaborators, platforms, and legacy agreements.
Prepares listeners for licensing, investment, partnership, and diligence
Speaking & Media
A guest who helps your audience understand what they own.
Conversations about ownership, licensing, AI, and the business value beneath the brand.
Upcoming
Upcoming engagements
Your Client May Not Own What They Think They Own
Chain of Title, AI, and Licensing Readiness
Continuing legal education for attorneys — New Jersey CLE, 1.8 general credits. Thursday, 29 October 2026, 10:00–11:30 a.m. Eastern.
When anyone can generate content in seconds, value in a brand-driven business shifts from production to ownership: what a company actually owns, what it can prove, and what it can control. The program examines what founder-led brands, agencies, studios, course companies, and creator businesses own when the work is produced by contractors, collaborators, and AI tools — and what the documentation has to show before a licence, a raise, or a sale.
Unlocked 2027 — Featured Speaker
Strategic Collaboration Network business conference. Saturday, 17 April 2027 — BWI Marriott Hotel, Linthicum Heights, Maryland.
Session: Built to Last: The Legal Blueprint for Business Owners. What a business actually owns, what it can prove, and what it can control — and why that, rather than any single document, is the structure a durable company is built on.
Host Introduction
Host introduction
Aurelia Mitchell Durant is a Partner at Rimon, an intellectual property attorney, and ownership counsel to brands, creators, and IP-led businesses, with more than 25 years of legal experience. She advises commercially established brands and IP-led businesses on ownership, licensing, commercialization, AI-related risk, and the legal and strategic issues that surface when companies expand, partner, raise capital, or prepare for a transaction.
She has practiced since 1999 and has taught trademark law to attorneys, managed international IP portfolios, and advised on licensing and brand-protection matters across business and creative sectors.
Primary Interview Angles
Six conversations that give an audience something usable.
AI Made Creation Abundant. Ownership Is Now the Premium.
Understand authorship, provenance, confidentiality, vendor terms, and evidence practices.
Connects AI use to control and commercialization, not fear alone
Before the Deal: Is Your Intellectual Property Actually Ready?
Learn what opportunities expose about chain of title, transferability, and licensing rights.
Speaks to founders, investors, advisors, and transaction audiences
Trademark Registration Is Not an Ownership System
See why filings alone do not answer who created, owns, controls, or can license the business's full asset base.
Separates a filing certificate from a defensible ownership position
The Ownership Layer™: Own, Prove, Control
Walk through the framework itself: what a business owns, what it can prove, and what it can control, before the next licensing, expansion, or exit decision.
Adaptable from a 20-minute segment to a full keynote
Crossing Borders: Your Brand Is Not Protected Everywhere You Sell
Understand why trademark protection is territorial, and what changes about filing strategy, enforcement, and risk when a brand expands abroad or enters the United States.
Speaks to brands expanding abroad and international companies entering the U.S.
Sample Host Questions
Sample host questions
- What do companies commonly believe they own but cannot fully prove?
- Why have contractors and agencies become such a persistent chain-of-title problem?
- How does AI change the evidence a company should preserve about creative work?
- What is the difference between registering a trademark and building an ownership-ready business?
- Which commercial events expose ownership gaps most quickly?
- What should a founder organize before licensing, raising capital, or entering diligence?
- How can ownership discipline inform commercial strategy, not only legal risk?
- What should international brands understand before entering the United States?
Media Kit
Media kit
No request required. Everything a host or producer needs is below. For anything else, use the inquiry form.
- Speaker one-sheet (PDF) — bios, interview angles, and contact on one page
- Pronunciation: Aurelia is aw-REEL-yuh
- Preferred title: Partner, Rimon P.C.
- Biographies in short, medium, and long form are below
- Website and LinkedIn: aureliamitchelldurant.com · linkedin.com/in/aureliamitchelldurant
- Host note: discussion is general information, not legal advice
Biographies
Copy whichever length fits your format.
Short, about 50 words
AI made content infinite. Ownership became the premium. Aurelia Mitchell Durant is the intellectual property attorney who built a framework for what follows: what a business actually owns, what it can prove, and what it can control. She is a Partner at Rimon P.C. and has advised founders since 1999.
Medium, about 110 words
AI made content infinite. Ownership became the premium. Aurelia Mitchell Durant is an intellectual property attorney who built a framework for the question that follows: when anyone can generate anything, what does a business actually own, what can it prove, and what can it control? She calls it The Ownership Layer™. A Partner at Rimon P.C., she has practiced since 1999, handling trademark and copyright matters, proceedings before the USPTO and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, matters before the U.S. Copyright Office, and international portfolio management for brands operating across borders. She has taught trademark law to attorneys.
Long, about 250 words
AI made content infinite. Ownership became the premium. Aurelia Mitchell Durant is an intellectual property attorney who built a framework for the question that follows. For twenty-five years she has sat across from founders at the moment ownership stops being theoretical: a licensing deal, an acquisition, an investor running diligence, a dispute with the contractor who built the brand. The pattern she kept seeing was not that businesses had done something wrong. It was that nobody had ever asked the question until something forced it.
Her answer is The Ownership Layer™, a framework for examining what a business owns, what it can prove, and what it can control across its brand, content, and creative assets, and for turning that examination into decisions about protection, licensing, and commercialization.
She is a Partner at Rimon P.C., where her work includes trademark and copyright matters, proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, matters before the U.S. Copyright Office, and management of international trademark portfolios for brands operating across borders. She has practiced since 1999 and has taught trademark law to attorneys. Her clients have included founder-led consumer brands, creator-led companies, agencies and creative studios, education and curriculum businesses, and international companies entering the U.S. market.
She speaks for audiences of founders, executives, agency owners, and creators, and works best in conversations that get specific rather than general.