Rights granted by a state authority following a formal application, examination, and payment of fees. They do not exist until the registration is confirmed and are maintained only while renewal fees are paid. Examples include patents (granted after examination of novelty and inventive step), registered trade marks (granted after examination and opposition periods), and registered designs (protecting the visual appearance of a product). Registered rights are largely peripheral to the CIP framework, which focuses on subsisting rights — the automatic rights that arise at creation and persist through every stage of AI use, regardless of registration. The primary IP issues in AI pipelines are subsisting rather than registered. However, AI-generated outputs may engage registered trade marks where they reproduce a brand's distinctive signs, and legal practitioners should be aware of both categories.