Solutions
Technology transfer
For universities, labs and SATTs: timestamp your work without disclosing it, from the bench to the license.
Certified lab notebooksPrior existence before publicationContributions by researcherSpaces by unitDefensive publicationZero disclosure
Between discovery and valorization
The long timeline of research, and its blind spots.
Between the first experiment and the license, years go by during which results circulate: industrial partners, funders, mobile PhD students, European consortia. Every exchange is useful; each is also a moment where prior existence becomes debatable.
Lab notebooks have historically served this role, provided they are kept up, initialed and preserved — a discipline few units maintain over the full duration of a project. A digital certificate achieves the same effect in a single operation, and can be verified without depending on anyone.
Nothing is disclosed: only the file's fingerprint is published. You can timestamp a protocol without revealing a single line of it.
Valorization
What proof changes
Three moments where a verifiable date weighs on the outcome, plus four practices worth putting in place.
Publish without losing prior existence
Scientific publication and patent filing follow conflicting timelines. Certifying before submission fixes the date without revealing anything, and buys time to decide.
Negotiate a license
An industrial partner taking a license is buying a legal position as much as a technology. A dated history shortens due diligence and strengthens the lab's position.
Allocate rights
PhD students, postdocs, academic partners: each person's contribution is documented at the moment it is made, not five years later when the question arises.
Publish defensively
When patenting isn't the right path, adding the work to the prior art prevents a third party from patenting it and preserves your freedom to operate.
Implementation
Set up at the lab's own pace
One space per research unit, deposits linked to projects and contracts, zero administrative burden for researchers.
→Electronic lab notebooks certified as work happens
→Spaces by unit, by project or by research contract
→Contributions linked to each researcher, including during mobility
→Export of the evidence file for a negotiation or a dispute
Compatible with your tools
Deposits are automated via API from an electronic lab notebook or an existing workspace: researchers keep their habits, and the record builds itself.
Use cases
The most common situations
The same deposit serves different needs depending on what you're protecting, and against what. Three cases that come up most often for this profile — see all seven.
Timestamp your work, valorize it better.
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