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No data, no deals: the evidence gap in IP finance

Why do lenders hesitate to accept IP as collateral? The EUIPO describes a vicious circle of missing data. Learn what lenders actually need to see, and how yo...

October 20, 2026 07:30·7 min read·IP Insights
No data, no deals: the evidence gap in IP finance
Bernstein Team

Your certificate is immutable. Your files are not.

How everyday tools can change certified files without an explicit save, and why preserving the exact original matters.

October 16, 2026 12:45·3 min read·IP Insights
Your certificate is immutable. Your files are not.
Bernstein Team

IP-backed finance and the disclosure paradox

The EUIPO's 2026 report puts 'make IP visible' first on the road to IP-backed finance. For trade secrets and know-how, visibility is the risk. How to disclos...

October 13, 2026 08:33·9 min read·IP Insights
IP-backed finance and the disclosure paradox
Bernstein Team

Make employee NDAs more robust with a verifiable record of confidential knowledge

Connect employee NDAs to a verifiable record of confidential knowledge, from onboarding through project development to departure, without reproducing sensiti...

October 08, 2026 06:33·6 min read·Case Studies
Make employee NDAs more robust with a verifiable record of confidential knowledge
Bernstein Team

Ten Years of Bernstein: A Love Letter to Being Early (and Stubborn)

Ten years after Bernstein began in Munich, we look back at a decade of blockchain, privacy, resilience, product evolution and the conviction that meaningful ...

September 29, 2026 08:00·3 min read
Ten Years of Bernstein: A Love Letter to Being Early (and Stubborn)
Bernstein Team

Take Your Proof With You: Downloadable, Offline-Verifiable Evidence

Your evidence should remain yours - even without Bernstein. With our new downloadable evidence packages, certificates can now be exported with everything nee...

September 01, 2026 12:52·4 min read·Product News
Take Your Proof With You: Downloadable, Offline-Verifiable Evidence
Bernstein Team

Bernstein and SecTech Announce Strategic Partnership to Strengthen Intellectual Property Protection in Ukraine

Bernstein and SecTech have entered into a strategic partnership to expand access to blockchain-based intellectual property protection in Ukraine. The collabo...

August 25, 2026 09:30·6 min read·Partnerships
Bernstein and SecTech Announce Strategic Partnership to Strengthen Intellectual Property Protection in Ukraine
Paul Reboh

Introducing Secure Sharing (Beta): share certified assets without breaking encryption

For years, our customers have asked us the same question in different words:

April 30, 2026 12:00·6 min read·Product News
Introducing Secure Sharing (Beta): share certified assets without breaking encryption
Paul Reboh

WIPO talks about Bernstein.io

The World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO has just published a white-paper on Blockchain Technologies and IP ecosystems.

January 20, 2023 12:00·1 min read·IP Insights
WIPO talks about Bernstein.io
Paul Reboh

Bernstein wins Culture Award at WSA Germany 2021

Bernstein.io is the proud winner of the WSA-Germany award in the "Culture & Tourism" category, and will be representing Germany at the 2021 WSA World Summit ...

January 20, 2022 12:00·1 min read·Awards
Bernstein wins Culture Award at WSA Germany 2021
Marco Barulli

Data encryption and blockchain for unregistered IP rights

Lately, the World Intellectual Property Organization started paying more and more attention to unregistered IP rights, such as trade secrets, copyright, comm...

February 24, 2021 12:00·2 min read·IP Insights
Data encryption and blockchain for unregistered IP rights
Marco Barulli

IP is in the air: Aeronord, gas balloons and anti-COVID-19 devices

Recently, Cisaro selected Bernstein as a tool for securing Aeronord's IP assets. We discussed specific implementation:

October 28, 2020 12:00·2 min read·Case Studies
IP is in the air: Aeronord, gas balloons and anti-COVID-19 devices

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