Surety: Manufacturing

“Surety offered the service we needed at a reasonable cost, plus it took just a couple of days to integrate AbsoluteProof.”

– Tokyo Electron

The manufacturing industry invests significant time and money in both innovation and reducing their ideas to practice. Intellectual property (IP) is immensely valuable and requires rigorous protection that can withstand legal challenges and meet requirements for demonstrating ownership, including the often challenging “first to invent” claims in the United States.

The Intellectual Property Engineers at Tokyo Electron designed a proprietary Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) to capture and manage the high-value research and development data generated by their researchers. AbsoluteProof was integrated into their ELN and records management processes, enabling senior executives to prove the authenticity of electronic records supporting their intellectual property.

Using AbsoluteProof, customers can irrefutably prove the time of an invention or discovery, and when it was reduced to practice, satisfying one of the most critical criteria in proving IP ownership. A company that has a verifiable record of the time of creation and reduction to practice of its IP also has a significant advantage in IP litigation. An AbsoluteProof user can prove that the electronic records in support of their intellectual property are authentic, are theirs and have never been altered since creation.

The risk of losing one patent, not to mention several thousand trade secrets, ideas and institutional knowledge is a bet-the-business issue.

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