In any legal dispute about infringement of unregistrable intellectual property rights the first defence raised from the alleged infringer will be for the claimant to prove ownership of the infringed right on which it claims ownership. The dispute therefore cannot progress to assess whether infringement has actually occurred or not, let alone a determination on the damages caused by such infringement, without first proving that you own such rights in the respective work.

VERIFiSMART’ s certificate provided an unchallengeable proof of the moment on which you created your work by creating a digital timestamp that is impossible to be altered or falsified, due to its embedment on blockchain technology.

Our certificate would therefore allow you to submit any claim letters to the other party with proof of ownership attached, which would then remove the burden of having to prove ownership through internal files and records that can be then challenged by the other party making that a lengthy and potentially costly process.

The name of the owner of the work (whether it is the original author or the company that commissioned its creation) appears at the top, together with a registration number and a visible digital timestamp.

The hash code of the work appears then, this is the unique code with which your code has been registered on the blockchain and which can be used to search for it anytime you need to prove that the certificate relates to the work in dispute.

You don’t need our help to prove ownership. You or any third-party can use our Smart Validator™ Service at any time, to find the work that has been registered by using the information available on your certificate.

For any project in which a particular work is slowly developed or constantly updated, it is important to keep a secure and accurate record of its progress both for personal/commercial purposes as well as for proof of ownership.

If any information or stage of development gets leaked or accessed by the wrong person, it could put your final work at risk of being copied or used before you are ready to use it yourself or release it to the public.

The advantages offered by VERIFiSMART are that you can encrypt and record every stage of development of a work and register the final version which will be made available to the public and, therefore, on which you would want to secure and enforce exclusive intellectual property rights.

It is important to actively monitor any unauthorised used of your work by running searches online as frequently as possible. For certain creative works, such as photographs, images or songs you can use our Smart Track™ Service to automatically scan the web and find any product or service that may be using the same or similar work as yours in a way that may be infringing your rights.

VERIFiSMART offers a section where you can keep records of any potential infringing uses of a particular work that you have registered, including information such as the date on which you find it, links to the sites on which the infringing goods or services are being offered and tracker of any claims submitted.