Independent verification

When Institutions Play Startup: The Cautionary Tale and Demise of WIPO PROOF

A post-mortem on why a UN agency’s commercial timestamping service collapsed after 20 months, and what it teaches the IP ecosystem about digital evidence.

EU Qualified Ledgers: A Legal Privilege No Technology Earned

The EU grants qualified ledgers a legal presumption their technology does not earn. It helps in EU courts, adds little elsewhere, and is no substitute for proof anyone can verify.

Blockchain in IP finance: the lesson of patent NFTs

IP-backed finance · Part 3

Patent NFTs promised a liquid market for intellectual property. The collapse of IPwe shows why the true value of distributed ledgers lies in durable evidence, not tradable tokens.

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.