Ideas and projects

Sometimes ideas need to be shared with others for their development, growth, monetisation and transformation in the course of collaborative projects.

PROOFIP will be useful for those who create intellectual property and want to be confident that the timestamping of their intellectual assets will allow the secure sharing, displaying, presentation, offering and discussion of these objects with any third party.

For example, if a screenwriter is going to get a meeting with a producer where he / she will disclose for the first time the content of a script that has not been shown to anyone before, then it makes sense to use PROOFIP service to fix its time priority on this content before the meeting.

If the script is pre-timestamped before its disclosure, then the screenwriter will have legally admissible evidence that he owned this script / content before someone else illegally use characters, rework, change its plot without the screenwriter's permission.

Any copyright result

Objects of copyright (works of science, literature and art) do not need formal state registration for their recognition or legal regulation. Due to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works of September 9, 1886 (to which today 179 countries are parties), the legal regulation and protection of copyright arises from the moment an author creates a work in any objective form.

However, many authors consider the importance of registering or certifying the fact of their authorship / ownership at a certain point in time on the work.

Inventions, scientific findings, industrial designs, trademarks

For the legally recognition of inventions, industrial designs and trademarks, it is necessary to achieve proper registration by a state body. In such cases, rightholders can use PROOFIP to easily and quickly record their ownership of the work at any stage prior to the formal submission of the finally completed IP result, both in terms of intermediate and final results of their activities.

Trade secrets

Intellectual property, which is considered as a trade secret, is devoted to provide to its holder a competitive advantages over its competitors and is often a product of internal researches and developments.

Trade secrets may take a variety of forms, such as a pattern, recipes, methods, processes and procedures, chemical formulas, laboratory notebooks, financials, budgets, or experimental results and are part of a company's assets.

To be legally considered as a trade secret and be granted with such status, three main criteria should be met:

• content / information should not be publicly known;
• content / information has economic value because of its secret;
• reasonable actions should be done to provide the content / information secret and not available.

PROOFIP provides solid evidence of trade secret ownership and helps to support its trade secret status without the need to upload or disclose any of the secret content / information itself.