Lab automation technologies and electronic tracking systems are taking the R&D world by storm—streamlining research and driving discoveries and inventions like never before. At the same time, they are generating massive amounts of R&D records and audit logs—electronic evidence of intellectual property that could one day be challenged in a court of law.
Unfortunately, if just one of these electronic records has been tampered with or even stolen, your entire investment could be lost.
Now more than ever, you need the power to prove that your electronic records of invention and ownership are authentic. You need AbsoluteProof® from Surety.
Data integrity | Legally defensible…independently verifiable…persistent
To protect intellectual property, researchers and corporate attorneys must be able to use electronic records to prove first-to-invent status—and that the evidence has never been altered. AbsoluteProof delivers independent, cryptographic proof that your research was created at a specific point in time…that the contents have not changed since that time…and that it is rightfully owned by your organization.
Authenticity | Protection for the long term
R&D departments must preserve their records between 15 and 100 years. At any moment, you might be called upon to verify the integrity of every audit log or record in defense of a product liability investigation or patent. As a result, you must be able to validate the authenticity of your electronic records years—or even decades—after its creation.
That’s where AbsoluteProof comes in. Only the Surety Integrity Seal, a digital, cryptographic time-stamp provides evidence of data integrity indefinitely—free from underlying hardware or software.
IP protection | eR&D readiness
At Surety, we simplify IP protection by integrating our AbsoluteProof trusted time-stamping service directly into your electronic lab notebooks, workflow and document and records management processes. So the power of proof is always on.
What’s more, AbsoluteProof is completely transparent to your researchers. So protecting your intellectual property never gets in the way of creating it.
Mitigating risk | Trusted time-stamping
With AbsoluteProof, a legally defensible, secure time-stamp is applied to your most valuable asset—your electronic intellectual property. As a result, the integrity of your electronic records is beyond challenge and unimpeachable:
- Trusted time-stamp | AbsoluteProof provides independent, third-party validation of the date and time of generation of any electronic record.
- Authentic content | AbsoluteProof lets you easily identify records that have been altered at any stage of custody within a business process—even as it flows outside your organization.
