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Strategize, not oversize your IP budget. Establish legally robust prior art through defensive publishing and help preserve freedom to operate with minimized public exposure.
Seamless defensive publishing
4 steps to disclose your invention and preserve Freedom-To-Operate
Prepare
Create your document that describes and shows your invention
Upload
Use our form to upload your publication as a PDF document
Approve
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Publish
Your defensive publication is disclosed in our archivePreserving your Freedom to Operate & beyond
Proofbox supports inventors and companies in building a sustainable IP strategy through efficient use of resources.
With IP related services, Proofbox helps to optimize your IP budget. We support you in a legally secure way and in compliance with international requirements, GDPR, and ISO standards, ensuring complete data sovereignty. Proofbox is a defensive publication platform that enables legally verifiable technical disclosures as prior art using eIDAS-compliant qualified timestamps and long term validation. It is an strategic complement to patent filing for creating enforceable prior art and preventing third party patent claims.
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Fully EU GDPR compliant
End-to-end encrypted
Defensive Publishing
Cost-effectively preserve your invention and Freedom-To-Operate while avoiding its excessive dissemination
- Immediately establish prior art and preserve exclusivity for third parties
- Decrease the risk of rapid public information distribution and maintain global legal security simultaneously
- Eliminate costly evidence requirements for prior use in third-party legal proceedings
Online-Only Archiving
Paywall-protected, freely but securely accessible, searchable, legally compliant, and with verifiable availability
- PCT-, EPC-, 35 U.S.C.-, CIPO-, CNIPA-, JPO-, ARIPO-, and EAP-compliance: Every publication through Proofbox is recognized as prior art
- Protected from bots, crawlers and AI by a paywall
- No connection to third-party services such as other databases, journals or libraries
Document Drafting
IP-related documents professionally and legally sound drafted by experts
- In compliance with formal and sustantive requirements, primarily under the EPC examination guidelines
- Legally and technically precise wording according to jurisdiction
- Drafted by experienced IP professionals, assisted by AI
Patent Searching
Identifying risks, opportunities, and relevant prior art through professional patent database research and analysis
- Obtaining relevant patents for your Freedom-To-Operate, prior art, invalidity and opposition evaluation
- AI-assisted search delivering highly relevant results at a fraction of the cost
- Transparent search reports with ranked relevance and legal status information
Preserving your Freedom to Operate & beyond
Proofbox supports inventors and companies in building a sustainable IP strategy through efficient use of resources.
With IP related services, Proofbox helps to optimize your IP budget. We support you in a legally secure way and in compliance with international requirements, GDPR, and ISO standards, ensuring complete data sovereignty. Proofbox is a defensive publication platform that enables legally verifiable technical disclosures as prior art using eIDAS-compliant qualified timestamps and long term validation. It is an strategic complement to patent filing for creating enforceable prior art and preventing third party patent claims.
Developed in EuropeISO-certified data centersFully EU GDPR compliantEnd-to-end encryptedDefensive Publishing
Cost-effectively preserve your invention and Freedom-To-Operate while avoiding its excessive dissemination
- Immediately establish prior art and preserve exclusivity for third parties
- Decrease the risk of rapid public information distribution and maintain global legal security simultaneously
- Eliminate costly evidence requirements for prior use in third-party legal proceedings
Online-Only Archiving
Paywall-protected, freely but securely accessible, searchable, legally compliant, and with verifiable availability
- PCT-, EPC-, 35 U.S.C.-, CIPO-, CNIPA-, JPO-, ARIPO-, and EAP-compliance: Every publication through Proofbox is recognized as prior art
- Protected from bots, crawlers and AI by a paywall
- No connection to third-party services such as other databases, journals or libraries
Document Drafting
IP-related documents professionally and legally sound drafted by experts
- In compliance with formal and sustantive requirements, primarily under the EPC examination guidelines
- Legally and technically precise wording according to jurisdiction
- Drafted by experienced IP professionals, assisted by AI
Patent Searching
Identifying risks, opportunities, and relevant prior art through professional patent database research and analysis
- Obtaining relevant patents for your Freedom-To-Operate, prior art, invalidity and opposition evaluation
- AI-assisted search delivering highly relevant results at a fraction of the cost
- Transparent search reports with ranked relevance and legal status information
Designed to eliminate all legal concerns
Establish enforceable prior art and minimize unwanted dissemination.
- Qualified electronic seal and timestamp: eIDAS compliant with long-term validation LTV
- Discoverability of every publication through SEO in accordance with USPTO and European case law, including EPO decisions G1/92 and T952/92
- Minimal attention through paywall-restricted access to individual publications and still legally compliant according to EPO OJ 2009, 456-462
- Legally binding publication through logged discoverability for each defensive publication, everyday
Publish any eligible content
Anything you want to preserve from being patented or claimed by third parties
- Descriptions of inventions, processes, business models, or memos on innovations and ideas
- Source code, flowcharts, commit history, system architecture documentation, screenshots, notes
- Plans, drawings, designs and technical drawings, sketches, and illustrations
- Cascaded publications to ensure comprehensive disclosure
- Immoral or offensive content, or any information that infringes the rights of third parties
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