Prior personal possession
Protect your know-how
In highly competitive industrial sectors, companies are frequently exposed to challenges concerning prior personal possession of their discoveries, innovations or, more broadly, their intellectual and industrial property assets.
Prior personal possession refers to the ability of a company or an individual to demonstrate that they held specific know-how, an invention or strategic information at a given point in time. It therefore constitutes a decisive form of evidence for preserving rights, defending against challenges or preventing the unjustified appropriation of work by a competitor.
Proving the existence and prior date of one’s know-how, whether in the form of know-how, industrial secrets or any strategic information developed before a filing or a patent application, thus becomes a major issue.
Evidentiary tools
to protect your know-how
Qualified Timestamping
Enables organisations to certify all files and logs constituting their know-how, in an automated manner, fully integrated within their information systems.
Electronic Seal
Provides a high probative value to know-how or industrial secret files, making them immediately usable in the event of a challenge or a dispute.
Preserving the prior date of know-how:
a major strategic issue
The primary challenge lies in managing and preserving a particularly vast collection of evidence: technical documents, design files, version histories, activity logs and operational data, often generated in their millions each year.
This set of elements forms the basis for demonstrating the prior date of know-how, the effective control of an innovation before any filing or registration process, and the legitimacy of its origin. In this context, ensuring the integrity, traceability and evidential value of these elements is indispensable in order to protect the organisation against any challenge or allegation of misappropriation of intellectual or industrial property.
Build
a solid evidence file
To build a solid and legally reliable file, it is essential to identify and secure all elements that demonstrate the development and effective control of the organisation’s know-how or innovations.
R&D laboratory notebooks
Drawings
Internal presentations
Internal notes
Meeting minutes
Logs from software used for creation and development…
How does it work?
Step 1
Identification of strategic documents to be time-stamped and/or electronically sealed
Step 2
Client connection to the Evidency API
Step 3
Transmission by the client of the items to be time-stamped and electronically sealed at a pre-defined frequency
Step 4
Receipt of documents in digital format, encryption, timestamping, and return of the timestamp token to the client and/or insertion of the electronic seal into the document
Contact us for further information on our Qualified Timestamping and Electronic Sealing solutions