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28 May 2020

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) launched a new online business service, WIPO PROOF that provides tamper-proof evidence of the existence at a point in time of any digital file, including data sets, in any format.

WIPO PROOF complements WIPO’s existing intellectual property (IP) systems by helping innovators and creators take verifiable actions to safeguard the many outputs of their work on the journey from an idea to concept development and commercialization.

In today’s increasingly digitized world innovative and creative activities are often global and collaborative, producing a vast array of data files containing valuable content that can easily fall prey to misuse or misappropriation. This content can range from trade secrets to scripts, musical scores and other creative works, to research results, large data sets, artificial intelligence algorithms, or any business records.

All of these should be treated as intellectual assets and be independently and securely documented at every stage of development, regardless of whether they eventually become formal IP rights. WIPO PROOF provides an efficient tool for creating evidence of the existence of an asset's digital files at each specific point in time, helping mitigate the risk of future legal disputes, as well as laying a foundation for any eventual registration of a formal IP right.

By creating a date- and time-stamped fingerprint of a digital file, WIPO PROOF provides a sort of digital notary service, offering a trusted, cost-effective and efficient service worldwide. WIPO PROOF joins WIPO's market-leading IP services for patents, trademarks, industrial designs, geographical indications and arbitration and mediation.


Based on the WIPO materials.

  
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