Surety: Manufacturing

"We use AbsoluteProof to protect our electronic intellectual property. We believe that the AbsoluteProof time-stamping procedure produces better integrity than a traditional written signature."

– Tom Froeschle, Vice President of Research, Bose Corporation

Bose Corporation is an example of a truly innovative company that takes intellectual property (IP) protection seriously, and recognizes that litigation readiness is a critical part of the IP protection process. After migrating from a paper to electronic lab environment, the R&D and Patent Engineering departments at Bose needed a method to support first-to-invent claims - that satisfied their internal and external legal counsel requirements.

Bose uses AbsoluteProof® on the desktops of their inventors, patent engineers and R&D executives to timestamp and witness their R&D documents. By using AbsoluteProof, the legal team can irrefutably prove the time of an invention or discovery, when it was reduced to practice, and that electronic records kept in support of that IP ownership claim are authentic and have not been altered since creation.

As companies migrate to electronic R&D processes to accelerate innovation and time-to-market, they need to ensure, at the same time, that they are protecting vital intellectual property and trade secrets, as well as meeting current and emerging regulatory requirements. It is critical for companies to guarantee that their documents of innovation are authentic and legally verifiable. Bose satisfies one of the most critical criteria in proving IP ownership by using AbsoluteProof. AbsoluteProof enables Bose scientists to focus on innovation.

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