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Reliable solutions for preserving inventions online-only
Defensive Publishing
With Proofbox™, you can publish technical innovations quickly, securely, and cost-effectively – without filing a patent application. Our platform enables defensive publication, a proven strategy to prevent others from patenting the same invention. Each disclosure is digitally time-stamped and stored in our tamper-proof online archive, ensuring verifiability and legal validity. This service is ideal for companies, start-ups, and individual inventors who want to safeguard their developments without pursuing full patent protection.
- Cost-Efficient Protection of Freedom-To-Operate
With Proofbox™, you can publish your invention securely and cost-effectively. You preserve your freedom to operate without running the risk that third parties could claim rights to your idea or that it might spread uncontrollably.
- Immediate Establishment of Prior Art
By publishing instantly, legally valid prior art is created. This ensures from the outset that no one else can obtain exclusive rights to the same idea – for example, through patent applications.
- Globally Recognized Internet Disclosure
Proofbox™ provides internationally recognized disclosure via internet. At the same time, its controlled archiving system and paywall prevent unwanted or uncontrolled dissemination of your idea – all within our unique online-only archive.
Online-Only Archiving
Proofbox™ offers a unique, fully digital archive for technical disclosures – completely independent from external databases or public libraries. Each disclosure is accessible exclusively through our platform and is logged daily with tamper-proof integrity. This ensures not only long-term online availability, but also verifiable traceability and resistance to forgery that can stand up in legal proceedings. Proofbox™ is the ideal solution for innovators who want maximum control over their publications – without relying on third-party institutions, but with the legal impact of a provable online disclosure.
- Paywall-Protected, Yet Publicly Accessible
The Proofbox™ archive is publicly accessible, yet protected by a paywall. This ensures that content remains discoverable, searchable, and visible to the public – without allowing unrestricted access. It strikes the necessary balance between legal visibility and protection, ensuring effectiveness as valid prior art.
- Legal Certainty and Long-Term Availability
All publications are legally compliant, securely stored, and verifiably available for the long term. Each document is archived in a tamper-proof manner and meets the requirements for legally relevant online disclosures under patent law.
- Compliant with International Patent Disclosure Standards
Proofbox™ is aligned with the disclosure requirements of major international patent offices, including WIPO (PCT), EPO (EPC), USPTO (35 U.S.C.), CIPO, CNIPA, JPO, ARIPO, and EAPO. Each publication is thus globally recognized as prior art and can be cited in examination proceedings.
Legal Aspects
Proofbox™ was designed from the ground up to meet the evolving requirements for legally relevant online disclosures. Our mission is to offer innovators, businesses, and research institutions a simple, fast, and reliable way to make technical content publicly available in a traceable and lasting manner – with the clear goal of establishing it as legally compliant prior art.
A key element of this approach is the reliable proof of the publication timestamp. To ensure this, Proofbox™ integrates certified timestamping services provided by accredited providers. A multi-layered archiving process guarantees the long-term availability of every disclosure, supported by tamper-proof logging and redundant storage infrastructure.
Proofbox™ combines digital security, technical discoverability, and audit-ready archiving in a way that aligns with today’s accepted standards for verifiable internet disclosures. Access is provided through a secure, yet publicly searchable archive – ensuring the right balance between traceability, control, and visibility.
Beyond that, Proofbox™ follows internationally recognized frameworks and best practices to make its processes transparent, trustworthy, and future-proof. The platform is designed to build confidence across global jurisdictions – without complexity, without legal uncertainty, but with a firm commitment to protecting innovation from third-party exclusivity.