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Technology transfer: date your research
For universities, labs and technology transfer acceleration companies (SATT): date your work from the bench to the license.
Timestamped lab notebooksPrior existence before publicationContributions by researcherSpaces by unitDefensive publicationContent confidentiality
Between discovery and commercialization
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, PhD students who move between labs, European consortia. Every exchange is useful. Each one is also a moment when prior existence can be challenged.
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 stays publicly verifiable.
Only the file's fingerprint is published. You can date a protocol while keeping its content confidential.
Commercialization
What proof changes
Four moments where a verifiable date weighs on the outcome, plus four practices to put in place.
Publish while keeping prior existence
Scientific publication and patent filing follow conflicting timelines. Timestamping before submission fixes the date without disclosing the content, and leaves 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 hand in negotiations.
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 a patent is not the right route, adding the work to the prior art (all knowledge already made public) 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 timestamped as work happens
→Spaces by unit, by project or by research contract
→Contributions linked to each researcher, including when they move to another lab
→Downloadable files and certificates for a negotiation or a dispute
Compatible with your tools
Deposits can be automated via API (a connection between software tools) from an electronic lab notebook or an existing workspace. Researchers work in their usual tools and the record builds itself.
Use cases
The most common situations
The same deposit meets different needs depending on what you protect and the risk you face. Here are three common cases for this profile. See all seven.
Timestamp your work, get more value from it.
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