Technology transfer offices

Build a verifiable record of research and innovation to support IP assessment, licensing, and commercialization. Help researchers document their work and share it confidently with potential partners.

From lab bench to market

Universities and research institutions generate valuable intellectual property every day. Bernstein helps technology transfer offices document these innovations from the earliest stages of research through commercialization, building reliable evidence for IP assessment, patent preparation, and licensing discussions.

From a doctoral student certifying thesis research to a professor documenting a new algorithm or a TTO managing hundreds of invention disclosures, everyone works in one place.

Each certification gives you a Bitcoin blockchain certificate, plus separate EU qualified and China trusted timestamp certificates on Scale and Enterprise plans. Your research stays confidential in encrypted, versioned storage, and anyone can validate the certificates independently, without Bernstein.

Support technology transfer at every stage

Certified invention disclosures

Keep a dated, verifiable record of invention disclosures and supporting research. Give your TTO reliable documentation for IP assessment, patent preparation, and licensing - while unpublished inventions stay confidential.

Research data and development history

Certify lab notebooks, experimental results, and research datasets as work progresses. Each new version gets its own certificate, so you build a dated record of how your findings developed.

Publications and software

Certify manuscripts, preprints, and source code before you share or publish them. Keep evidence of their existence and development to support your position if authorship or ownership is challenged.

Collaborative research and licensing

Document contributions from research teams and external partners. Reference specific certified versions in confidentiality, collaboration, and licensing agreements to make clear which research assets they cover.

Collaborate securely on the path to market

Technology transfer runs on sharing knowledge with licensees, industry partners, and spinouts. With Secure Sharing, researchers and TTOs give them encrypted access to certified files, and recipients accept your confidentiality terms before opening anything. Every share is logged, so you know what was shared, and when. Reference specific certified versions as talks move into collaboration and licensing.