New protection for innovators with launch of digital asset fingerprinting
A new online digital fingerprinting service has been launched to help protect designs and innovations from copycat misuse. The World Intellectual Property Organisation’s new online business platform – known as WIPO PROOF – is designed to safeguard intellectual assets by creating date and time-stamped digital fingerprints when information is uploaded. Owners of the assets receive tamper-proof evidence to safeguard every stage of the development cycle through to commercialisation. The aim is to speed up any subsequent litigation over copyright, design or patent, by recording and confirming each stage. The platform…