Support your IP filings and enforcement with certified evidence
Certify the evidence behind your patents, trademarks, designs and copyright, from first draft to enforcement. Private, organized, and ready when you need it.
Keep the evidence behind your IP portfolio
An IP portfolio is built through filings, but it lives through years of development, launches, agreements and sometimes disputes. The evidence behind it ends up scattered across teams, advisers and forgotten folders.
Bernstein keeps that evidence safe as it grows. Each certification gives you a Bitcoin blockchain certificate. On Scale and Enterprise plans, you also get separate timestamps from an EU qualified and a Chinese trusted timestamp authority. Your files stay in encrypted, versioned storage, ready for review and independent validation.
IP offices grant your rights. Bernstein keeps the evidence behind them. Use it with your advisers before filing, while your rights are in force, and when it's time to license or enforce.
Support the rights you pursue
Patents
Certify invention disclosures, lab notes, test results and technical versions. Keep a dated development record for drafting, inventorship questions and entitlement disputes.
Trademarks
Certify real evidence of use, from packaging and campaigns to sales records. Have it ready for a USPTO declaration of use or an EUIPO non-use challenge.
Registered designs
Certify sketches, prototypes, final designs and launch records. Keep a dated design history for your registration and for copying or entitlement disputes.
Copyright
Certify creative works, software and each new version. Copyright usually arises automatically. Your record backs registration where it exists, licensing, and authorship or ownership disputes.
How Bernstein helps
Keep your evidence in one place
Gather material from your teams, agencies, contractors and advisers, organized around the assets in your portfolio.
Keep more than the filing
Earlier versions, research and commercial records rarely make it into the application. Keep them as your work and products evolve.
Tie agreements to exact versions
Reference certified versions in assignments, licences and collaboration agreements, so everyone knows exactly what's covered.
Be ready before a challenge
When an office, adviser or court asks, produce the files and certificates anyone can verify. Build the record before a dispute makes it urgent.
How it works
Gather your material
Collect the files behind your application or right, with contribution, disclosure or commercial-use records.
Certify it
Upload and certify in one click. Your files are encrypted in your browser before they reach Bernstein.
Keep the record current
Certify new versions at each milestone, from development and filing to launch and licensing. Each version gets its own certificate, so you build a dated history.
Work with your IP advisers
Pull the right files and certificates for filings, agreements or proceedings. Need to share? Secure Sharing gives your advisers encrypted access inside Bernstein.
Evidence for IP offices and courts
Courts increasingly accept blockchain evidence and trusted timestamps. How much weight they carry depends on the country, the case and the rest of your evidence.
Frequently asked questions
No. Bernstein keeps your evidence. Patents, registrations and other legal steps are separate, and certification doesn't give you patent priority or exclusive rights.
No. Only a cryptographic fingerprint goes on the Bitcoin blockchain or to the timestamp authorities. Your files stay encrypted. Want a public disclosure that stops others from patenting your idea? That's defensive publishing, a planned Bernstein feature.
Yes. With the certificate, the original files (including the project cover file) and the validation data, anyone can check integrity and certification date independently, without us.