Yes, they're all considered corporate assets. There's an example of when we were a young company and all we had was a search product. Larry and Sergey, our founders, published a paper about the page-ranking system upon which the search product was based. Just the process of publishing that paper gave spammers who wanted to game the search rankings and get a higher ranking for their services enough information to start skewing the results.
On June 1st, 2017. See this statement in context.