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Whatever your idea or proof, at Ur-IP, we register it quickly, immutably and cost-effectively thanks to blockchain technology.
The problem?
Plagiarism... Counterfeiting... Artificial Intelligence
By registering your work with Ur-IP, you protect yourself in advance not only against "human" plagiarism, but also against counterfeiting, altering and/or informing artificial intelligence about your own style, approach or uniqueness.
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The solution
A trusted timestamping
At Ur-IP, we recognize the paramount importance and priority of providing the best possible protection for the intellectual property of companies and individuals. Our state-of-the-art timestamping technology ensures that your ideas, creations and other innovations are securely documented at all time with an irrefutable proof of anteriority.
By registering your work on the Ur-IP platform, you obtain an immutable timestamp of your work, enabling you to defend yourself successfully in the event of litigation.
You don't need to understand blockchain technology to use all the features of this website and sign up for a subscription with Ur-IP. Our team enables you to manage, classify and protect your ideas, creations, patents, inventions and/or works yourself in your own customer area, in complete confidence, against any plagiarism, unauthorized use or claims.
Give your private or professional business the strongest possible protection. Join Ur-IP today and protect your intellectual property with unassailable proof of anteriority.
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Ur-IP can help you protect all types of files at any stage in the creation of your idea/work (whether just begun, in progress or completed), including:
- the lyrics of your work (notably .pdf, .txt, .doc, .docx, etc.), and/or;
- the audio file of your work (including .mp3, .mp4, .aiff, .caf, .wav, .bwf, .flac, .ogg, etc.), and/or;
- the video file (with audio) of your work (in particular .mov, .mpeg, .wmv, .avi, etc.);
- the session file of the DAW used for your work (in particular .logic, .cpr, .ptx, .dpdoc, .als, .alp, etc.) and/or the corresponding midi file (in particular .smf, .smg, .mid, .midi);
- the score and/or tuning chart of your work (in particular .pdf, word, .sib, .mus, .musx, .dorico, .musicxml, etc.);
- your personal or collaborative document (in particular .pdf, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsb, etc.) setting out the division of intellectual property rights for your work between different people.
Ur-IP can help you protect all types of files at any stage in the creation of your idea/work (whether just begun, in progress or completed), including:
- the text of your work (including .pdf, .txt, .doc, .docx, etc.);
- if applicable, the proof of your idea/work before printing or publishing (in any document or file format);
- your personal or collaborative document (in particular .pdf, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsb, etc.) setting out the division of intellectual property rights for your idea/work between different people.
Ur-IP can help you protect all types of files at any stage in the creation of your idea/work (whether just begun, in progress or completed), including:
- image files and photos of your work (including .jpeg, .jpg, .png, .gif, .tif, .psd, .eps, .pdf, etc.);
- animated video files of your work (including .mov, .mpeg, .wmv, .avi, etc.);
- all other types of files accompanying your work (in particular .pdf, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsb, etc.) setting out the division of intellectual property rights for your idea/work between different people.
Ur-IP can help you protect all types of files at any stage in the creation of your idea/work/plan (whether just begun, in progress or completed), including:
- architectural software files (2d or 3d, including .dwg, .dfx, .skp, .skb, etc.), and/or;
- text files of any kind linked to your work (in particular .pdf, .txt, .doc, .docx, etc.);
- any animated video files of your work (including .mov, .mpeg, .wmv, .avi, etc.);
- your personal or collaborative document (in particular .pdf, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsb, etc.) setting out the distribution of intellectual property rights to your work among different people.
Ur-IP can help you protect all types of files at any stage in the creation of your idea/work/plan (whether just begun, in progress or completed), including:
- architectural software files (2d or 3d, including .dwg, .dfx, .skp, .skb, etc.), and/or;
- text files of any kind linked to your work (in particular .pdf, .txt, .doc, .docx, etc.);
- any animated video files of your work (including .mov, .mpeg, .wmv, .avi, etc.);
- your personal or collaborative document (in particular .pdf, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsb, etc.) setting out the distribution of intellectual property rights to your work among different people.
Ur-IP can help you protect all types of files at any stage in the creation of your idea / discovery / process (whether just begun, in progress or completed), including:
- text files of all kinds related to your idea / discovery / process (including .pdf, .txt, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsb, .ppt, .pptx, etc.);
- audio files of your idea / discovery / process (including .mp3, .mp4, .aiff, .caf, .wav, .bwf, etc.) and/or ;
- any animated video files of your idea / discovery / process (including .mov, .mpeg, .wmv, .avi, etc.);
- files specific to your usual work programs;
- your personal or collaborative document (in particular .pdf, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsb, etc.) setting out the distribution of intellectual property rights to your work between different people.
Ur-IP can help you protect all types of files at any stage in the creation of your illustration/work (whether just begun, in progress or completed), including:
- files of all types of text linked to your illustration/wotk (including .pdf, .txt, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsb, .ppt, .pptx, etc.);
- image files and photos of your illustration/work (in particular .jpeg, .jpg, .png, .gif, .tif, .psd, .eps, .bmp, .heif, .skp, .pdf, etc.);
- any animated video files of your illustration/work (including .mov, .mpeg, .wmv, .avi, etc.);
- your personal or collaborative document (in particular .pdf, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsb, etc.) setting out the division of intellectual property rights for your work between different people.
Ur-IP can help you protect all types of files at any stage in the creation of your idea/work (whether just begun, in progress or completed), including:
- text files of all types linked to your work (including .pdf, .txt, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsb, .ppt, .pptx, etc.);
- files specific to your usual work programs or software;
- your personal or collaborative document (in particular .pdf, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsb, etc.) setting out the division of intellectual property rights for your idea/work between different people.
Ur-IP can help you protect all types of files at any stage in the creation of your work/idea (whether just begun, in progress or completed), including:
- files of all text types related to your work/idea (including .pdf, .txt, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsb, .ppt, .pptx, etc.);
- files specific to your work programs or your idea support programs;
- your personal or collaborative document (in particular .pdf, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsb, etc.) setting out the distribution of intellectual property rights for your work/idea between different people.
Features behind proofs of anteriority with blockchain technology
Introduction
In order to create a proof of anteriority from information (hereinafter referred to as « data », that is, for example a song, a text, an image, etc.), it is necessary to link permanently this information to an immutable timestamp.
Due to their transparent and resilient nature, public blockchains are not only relevant but above all highly efficient infrastructures for timestamping information.
Different approaches are then possible to timestamp information/data on a blockchain:
- 1a) to record the entire item of data on the blockchain, or
- 1b) to record only the digital fingerprint (timestamp) of the data concerned.
Approach 1a) is not only more costly than approach 1b), but also significantly slows down the operation of a blockchain. What's more, both approaches are unable to timestamp a large amount of data (proof of anteriority), although they are certainly transparent and easy to verify.
- 2) Anchor the root node of a Merkle tree, where each leaf (of the Merkle tree) contains the representation (hash) of the data concerned. A single transaction is thus created for a given period, regardless of the quantity of information to be timestamped.
In addition, on blockchains compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), it is possible to write the data, or its digital fingerprint or the root node of a Merkle tree into smart contracts instead of including them in the transaction. This approach makes it possible to interact with smart contracts using the data or its digital fingerprint.
The Anchoring mechanism
0) First, a startup hash (genesis hash) is created as the basis of a Merkle Tree (see below « 0x34c3aa »).
Then, 1) another hash (see below « 0x333aa ») is created from the first information/data (see « Doc 1 ») and added in the metadata of said Doc 1 which then contains information such as the author(s) of the file, the file name, its duration (if applicable), etc.
The next step, 2) involves combining this last hash with the latest node of the Merkle Tree in order to create the next level node (hash « 0x3eed44 ») until a single root hash is finally obtained (« 0x6590ab ») as a combination of all previous hashes of other information/data, such as, in our example below, « Doc 2 », « Doc 3 » and « Doc 4 ».
Thus, the sequence of points 1) and 2) applies in the same way to Doc 2, Doc 3 and Doc 4. This root hash (« 0x6590ab ») represents the entire content of the Merkle tree and is incorporated at regular time intervals into a new blockchain transaction.
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In the end, a certificate (“json” file included in a pdf) is delivered to the user containing the document’s metadata along with the information needed to prove the document’s anteriority (in the event, for example, of a third party contesting this anteriority), namely, a hash of the transaction and the access pass to the root to the anchor.
Consequently, the verification process consists of recreating the document hash (and its metadata) from the original file (or an exact duplicate of it), then recreating the root hash from the the access pass to the root contained in the certificate, in order to prove the anteriority of the file concerned beyond any possible doubt.
(see the external academic references of the underlined words below for an explanation of the concept in question, currently only available in the French language)
Blockchain is a technology for storing and transmitting events ("transactions"), secured (using asymmetric cryptographic methods), operating without a central control body and whose set of information, the register (or ledger), made up of successive blocks of transactions of fixed size, is replicated (i. e. recopied) in a decentralized and peer-to-peer way, on a voluntary basis, across a large number of nodes (roughly speaking, people who have downloaded the blockchain) active on the Internet or through any other form of computer network.
By extension, a blockchain (literally, a chain of blocks) also represents a tool used to prove of the exchange of information that can be accessed for the simple purpose of verifying the validity or existence of a particular event or transaction. A blockchain can therefore be likened to a register or a ledger that is open and accessible to all, pseudonymized, immutable and unforgeable.
Ur-IP uses blockchain technology to establish a proof of anteriority, because this technology offers, simultaneously:
- an ease of use (you upload each file corresponding to each of your ideas in just a few clicks, and can even group together several files relating to the same idea);
- a fast registration (Ur-IP registers each of your ideas in just a few minutes; each certificate is then issued by 11:59 pm CET the latest, on the day it was requested);
- an extremely competitive cost, adapted to your needs and their evolution over time;
- an un(de)finite term of protection, i. e. a potential eternity for each registration, as reflected and proven by each Ur-IP certificate.
Exclusively, Ur-Ip also enables you to diversify registrations (and therefore the corresponding certificates) across several blockchains, for example, in the case of the Intermediate offer, across the Solana and Ethereum blockchains, and in the case of the Premium offer, across the Solana, Ethereum and Bitcoin* blockchains.
Ur-IP is an Internet platform that issues a proof (certificate) establishing the anteriority of any idea (artistic work such as text/speech, audio recording, photo, plan, drawing, Excel file, etc.) to help prove your status as the creator of the concerned idea. This guarantees that, in the event of plagiarism or any other form of "theft" of your idea (counterfeiting, copying, adaptation, translation, broadcasting and/or unauthorized reproduction, etc.), this evidence can be used to demonstrate the anteriority of your status as creator, author or holder of any other intellectual property right, before any third party in the event of a non-judicial commercial dispute, or before any judge in the event of judicial litigation.
Using blockchain technology, Ur-IP can therefore guarantee the anteriority (or potentially the "paternity", see below) of the creation of any idea or of any work, i. e. the imprint in time of all information linked to this idea or to this work, such as the imprint of the file on which the idea/work is recorded, in perpetuity, i. e. potentially for eternity.
Legally, however, Ur-IP does not enable you to prove that you are actually the creator of an idea (or the author of a work) at the time you decide to issue a certificate. On the other hand, Ur-IP does enable you to demonstrate that, at a given moment in time, you have indeed associated your identity with an idea (or work). Thus, unlike a third party who claims - after you've issued your certificate - that you stole his idea, you have the irrefutable proof that you knew about the idea in question before he did.
You can create your Ur-IP member space directly from the home page www.ur-ip.com.
Apart from the very costly filing of patents, and with the near-impossibility of covering the entire territory of the world by this means, one of the traditional means used until now to obtain a proof of anteriority was to send oneself, by registered mail*, either an envelope or a sealed or at least tightly-sealed package, containing the medium of the idea concerned (photo, drawing, photocopy and/or USB key containing unpublished documents, CD-ROM, etc.) and to keep the letter or the package in a safe place, indefinitely, so as to have it to hand in case of need, for example, to present it to a judge so that the latter may open it and discover the concerned proof of anteriority.
The problem is that such a solution is both highly impractical and expensive, since each time an idea or current work is updated (as well as a manufacturing secret, a plan, etc.), or a new work is simply created, a new registered letter has to be stamped, a new seal (or any other means of sealing in addition to gluing the envelope) has to be affixed, and the letter has to be sent to the post office again.
With Ur-IP, even with the Basic subscription, you can upload an unlimited number of files per day (which you can decide to delete yourself once the certificate has been generated), and thus benefit from a potentially unlimited number of "registered mails" for a reasonable one-off monthly fee. In reality, you're only limited by the amount of storage space available under your Ur-IP subscription, and you can always upgrade to a subscription offering more storage space.
Depending on your subscription, you may be allocated dedicated disk space at Ur-IP. That said, once you've generated a certificate (proof of anteriority) from a given file, and if - and only if - you've kept an exact copy of that same file on your hard disk (i. e., perfectly identical to the original file, having for example used a duplication function), you no longer need in your customer space the file on which your certificate is based, and can therefore delete it.
Indeed, since the Ur-IP platform has created an imprint from your file, said imprint will always be the same if it is generated from an exact copy of the original file. So, by always keeping an exact copy of the file used to create the certificate, you will always be able to prove the anteriority of your contribution to this file, and therefore to the idea or work that is contained in it.
Consequently, as Ur-IP does not keep any copy of your files when they are deleted from your customer area, you are solely responsible for any loss of proof of anteriority in the event that you have not kept elsewhere an exact copy of the file on which this proof (certificate) is based.
By keeping one or more exact copies elsewhere, you hence always have the choice of keeping your files with Ur-IP, as an additional security measure, or of deciding to delete them from your customer area.
Not necessarily. For each file, a fingerprint is generated directly in the browser opened from the user's computer. These fingerprints are used to ensure the integrity of files when they are uploaded, and are also used to generate Ur-IP certificates.
Hence, in the case of very large files (several hundred MB) or of particularly confidential data, the Ur-IP platform allows you to share only the fingerprint of these files, and not their content. In all other cases, Ur-IP recommends that you upload and store your files on the platform, in order to benefit from the best protection and all the features offered by Ur-IP.
(1) Absolutely. When you write a text, you can generate a certificate for version 1.0, then version 1.1, then version 1.2 and so on. At any time, you can create a proof of anteriority of your work. So every improvement or update to your idea/work will be timestamped in the blockchain.
In fact, this is the right way to go: it enables you to prove your contribution to the development of an idea/work, whether individual or collaborative (i. e. in the event of a dispute), for the duration of the development and until completion of the idea/work in question.
(2) Yes, of course. However, the fingerprint that was created on the blockchain when the first proof of anteriority was registered (and the corresponding certificate received) can no longer be modified: it is now permanently registered on the blockchain. However, you can always obtain a new certificate by submitting a new (updated) file as soon as you have modified your idea/work.
Absolutely. After uploading the source file and when generating the certificate, you have the option (and never the obligation) of indicating the percentage ownership of all intellectual property rights linked to the uploaded work.
This sharing of rights remains on the blockchain at all times, in accordance with the certificate you have received, even when you decide to delete the source file from the Ur-IP platform. When rights change over time, the issue of a new certificate will indicate the relevant changes.
Example :
Alice composed the lyrics of a song. She estimates her contribution at 75% of the copyright for this text, and admits that Bob contributed 25%. At the same time, Charlie composed and arranged the music with Dave (they are therefore each 50% composers and arrangers). Edmond handled the artistic production (i. e. 100% of the music production rights, with mixing and mastering). For one and the same audio file uploaded, you will therefore declare the following breakdown in the Ur-IP platform:
| Author(s) / lyricist(s) | Composer(s) / arranger(s) / orchestrator(s) | Producer(s) / sound engineer(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alice | 75% | - | - |
| Bob | 25% | - | - |
| Charlie | - | 50% | - |
| Dave | - | 50% | - |
| Edmond | - | - | 100% |
Ur-IP accepts no liability for misleading statements regarding intellectual property rights in connection with an idea or work for which a certificate was established via the platform. At Ur-IP, you engrave in time a declaration of ownership of intellectual property rights. As a result, you are the only one to know whether or not you are recording the actual and true situation regarding the ownership of these rights.
(see the external academic references of the underlined words below for an explanation of the concept in question, currently only available in the French language)
The certificate issued by Ur-IP contains, cumulatively:
- the information that you have uploaded a file to the Ur-IP platform;
- the fact that this file has a specific name, format and, if applicable, duration (in the case of audio and/or video files);
- the information that, in the case of co-creators, you have declared a specific distribution of intellectual property rights for the idea or work contained in the file;
- various information relating to the life cycle of the work, i. e. the current version of the work, timestamped in the blockchain, including the date of creation of the file (before it was uploaded to the Ur-IP platform), the date of creation of the hash representing the file, and the date of inscription of the block, on the blockchain, in which your hash is inscribed; finally,
- technical information enabling you, if necessary, to prove the anteriority of all your declarations using one or more blockchain(s).
No. The certificate in no way regenerates the original documents. It only represents a fingerprint of the file or files you have uploaded to the Ur-IP platform. In the case of a particular file, however, the certificate can be used to reconstruct its fingerprint on the blockchain to ensure that the file has not been modified.
The proofs of anteriority (certificates) you generate via the Ur-IP platform are already de facto valid in the 181 signatory countries of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works of November 19, 1984. This Convention provides for a "moral right" to claim authorship of any work, and the right to object to any mutilation, distortion or other modification of said work, or to any other infringement that would be prejudicial to the honor or reputation of its author(s).
In addition, regardless of the Berne Convention, Ur-IP certificates represent a logical and irrefutable proof of anteriority that can be accepted in good faith anywhere in the world.
(1) Your certificates will always reflect the footprint of your original file (or an exact copy) on the blockchain, i. e. your proof of anteriority, regardless of whether Ur-IP survives or not.
(2) Since a blockchain's register is always copied by all the nodes that make up its network, the disappearance of a blockchain (i. e. the end of its maintenance and use by the nodes that make up its network) will not automatically erase its ledger, which will remain written on the hard drives of the former nodes (of which there are always at least thousands or tens of thousands on most blockchains). Finally, depending on your subscription, your imprint can be made on more than just one blockchain, including the two most famous, Bitcoin and Ethereum, with the Premium subscription.
(1) If you cancel your subscription, it will end on the last day of the current month. Your customer area will still exist, regardless of whether or not you have a subscription with Ur-Ip. Insofar as you have obtained prior proofs of anteriority (certificates) in the past (either because you purchased them individually or because you obtained them via one of the subscriptions offered by Ur-Ip), you still have access to your old certificates (which you have already received by e-mail) and to your files, provided you have not decided to delete them.
Please note: after a period of inactivity of two years, or if your cancellation results in your storage quota being exceeded (i. e. by cancelling a Premium or Intermediate subscription and switching to a Basic subscription, or ending up with no subscription at all), Ur-IP will automatically delete your oldest files until your storage matches your new subscription, or - if you no longer have a subscription - will grant you a period of time to back up your files externally (if you have not already done so), at the end of which Ur-IP will effectively proceed to delete these files.
(2) You may decide at any time to delete your entire customer area (i. e. your entire account, including your login details). In such a case, Ur-Ip will proceed with the deletion of all of your personal data as well as all other data that you have entered in your customer area (i. e., for example, personal data relating to your co-creators, co-authors and other co-participants in your idea or work, but also any certificates not previously downloaded as well as any residual files on the basis of any certificates). If you so request, following the deletion of your account, Ur-Ip will also send you a written declaration of total deletion of your personal data, in compliance with art. 17 GDPR*, (or even, for example for Switzerland, with art. 32 al. 2 let. c and al. 4 of the new federal law on data protection updated on September 1, 2023), this insofar as no exception provided for by law is applicable.
Please note: Ur-IP will be able to keep all technical data linked to the fingerprints of files in the blockchain, insofar as they do not contain any personal data, whether encrypted or not (in particular, fingerprints attesting to the timestamping of a particular file in the blockchain).
Pricing
CHF 2.99 ATI/certificate
- Establishment of 1 certificate
- 1 document per certificate
- Size of single file: 20 Mb max
- Timestamping on the Solana blockchain
- Immutability and lifetime guarantee
CHF 7.50 ATI/month
(or 75.-/year)
- Unlimited number of certificate per month
- 1 document per certificate
- Size of single file: 20 Mb max
- Maximum storage: 1 Gb (*)
- Timestamping on the Solana blockchain
- Immutability and lifetime guarantee
(*) See additional storage options
CHF 14 ATI/month
(or 140.-/year)
- Unlimited number of certificate per month
- 1 document per certificate
- Size of single file: 100 Mb max
- Maximum storage: 5 Gb (*)
- Timestamping on the Solana and Ethereum blockchains
- Immutability and lifetime guarantee
(*) See additional storage options
Storage options
5 Gb
CHF 2.- ATI/month
12 Gb
CHF 4.- ATI/month
75 Gb
CHF 9.- ATI/month
250 Gb
CHF 16.50 ATI/month
1 Tb
CHF 49.- ATI/month
CHF 8 ATI/month1
(or 350.-/year)
- Collaborative space
- Unlimited number of certificate per month
- Multiple documents per certificate
- Size of single file: 2 Gb max
- Maximum storage: 100 Gb (*)
- Timestamping on the Solana, Ethereum & Bitcoin blockchains
- Anonymity option (confidentiality of the proof)
- Option to generate a proof from a URL
- Immutability and lifetime guarantee
CHF 5 ATI/month2
(or 650.-/year)
- Collaborative space
- Unlimited number of certificate per month
- Multiple documents per certificate
- Size of single file: 2 Gb max
- Maximum storage: 500 Gb (*)
- Timestamping on Solana, Ethereum & Bitcoin blockchains
- Anonymity option (confidentiality of the proof)
- Option to generate a proof from a URL
- Immutability and lifetime guarantee
CHF 3.50 ATI/month3
(or 1085.-/year)
- Collaborative space
- Unlimited number of certificate per month
- Multiple documents per certificate
- Size of single file: 2 Gb max
- Maximum storage: 2 Tb (*)
- Timestamping on the Solana, Ethereum & Bitcoin blockchains
- Anonymity option (confidentiality of the proof)
- Option to generate a proof from a URL
- Immutability and lifetime guarantee
Storage options
1 Tb
CHF 49.- ATI/month
5 Tb
CHF 199.- ATI/month
10 Tb
CHF 320.- ATI/month
The storage is shared among team members
About Us
The Ur-Ip team, based in Switzerland, Italy and France, is made up of intellectual property specialists, IT developers (both on and off blockchain), lawyers, sales and marketing specialists, each with a minimum of 15 years' experience in their respective fields.
Ur-Ip's role, objective and commitment are to provide all site users with immutable and indestructible protection of their creativity and intellectual property rights, as well as storage and management of their files benefiting from the highest standards of quality and security.
As all Ur-Ip employees are users of the solution, they are constantly involved in improving the company's services and offers, as well as the customer experience, on the site and on its platform.
General Terms and Conditions of Use
(version of 1st November 2023)
The present General Terms and Conditions of Use (hereinafter referred to as the “General Conditions”) inform you of the conditions under which natural persons or legal entities, as duly represented by a natural person (hereinafter referred to as the "User" or “Users”) may use the website available under the following domain name: https://ur-ip.com or any other domain name with “ur-ip” in it, and the associated pages making it up (hereinafter referred to as the "Website").
The User is invited to read the present General Conditions carefully before using the Website. By using the Website, the User agrees to be bound by the present General Conditions. Insofar as these may be updated, the User undertakes to read these General Conditions regularly and acknowledges that the General Conditions applicable to him/her are those available on the Website at the time he/she uses it.
Unless specifically indicated in these General Conditions, the singular shall include the plural and the plural the singular; and any of the masculine, feminine or neuter shall include any other of the masculine, feminine and neuter.
I. The Company
DataTech Sàrl, a limited liability company, is registered in the Swiss Commercial Register under no. CHE-172.190.839, with its registered office in Geneva, Switzerland, which can be reached by e-mail at: contact@ur-ip-com (hereinafter referred to as the "Company") and owns the website and platform accessible, in particular, under the following domain name: https://ur-ip.com.
The Website is hosted by Infomaniak Group SA a company registered with the Swiss Commercial Register under no under no. CHE-114.879.523, with its registered office in Les Acacias, Geneva, Switzerland.
II. The Services
II.1 General information
Depending on the type of subscription chosen by the User, the Company enables the latter to constitute proofs of existence (anteriority) of his/her creations, works and/or projections using the Solana, Ethereum and Bitcoin blockchain technologies and to benefit from various associated services of file management (hereinafter referred to as the “Services”).
The registration to the Website is free of charge. The Solution is granted to the User in the form of an online access to a web platform via a login and password, and with an optional multi-factor identification. For further information, the User is referred to the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page available on the Website.
The Services may be applied to any kind of data, files or other dematerialized assets, such as but not limited to intellectual property rights (like copyrights and related rights, patents, trademarks, designs, trade secrets, know-how, indications of sources, or any other proprietary rights (all hereinafter referred to as "Dematerialized Assets"), whatever their format and file type (be it data, text, audio, video, 3D, etc.).
The User acknowledges and accepts that:
- when using the Services, he/she is at least 18 of age or acts through a legal representative;
- when using the Services on behalf of a legal entity, he/she duly has the authority to act on behalf and in the name of the concerned entity;
- the Company reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace the present General Conditions at any time. If the modifications thereof would constitute an important change in the Services - knowing that the notion of an important change shall be determined at the sole discretion of the Company -, the Company will notify the User by posting an announcement on the Website and/or by notifying the User by e-mail.
- the Services are provided on an “as-is” basis and that the Company does not assume any responsibility for their speed - knowing that the delivery of a Certificate (see below II.2 b) is based on the actual speed of the blockchain used at the time such Certificate is requested -, as well as the deletion, mis-delivery - notably due to wrong e-mail indications by the user - or failure to store any data or settings of the User;
- the Services are based on the blockchain technology, and notably on the Solana, Ethereum and Bitcoin blockchains, that are innovative technologies replacing traditional means of anchoring events and proving anteriority;
- from time to time, the Services may be slow or may eventually suffer interruption as a result of network and/or server update or maintenance, (or) due to a User's slow internal connection, or due to any kind of force majeure event.
II.2 Proof of anteriority and data storage
The Company provides each User with a dedicated personal storage space, access to which is conditional upon subscription to one of the monthly or annual subscriptions offered on the Website and the creation of an account (hereinafter the "Account") under the conditions set out in Article III.2 below. Once the Account has been created, the User may use the various services and tools offered on the Website, depending on the package subscribed to by the User, such as:
- the storage and management of data, files and other Dematerialized Assets within the User dashboard, for upload, redownload, classification by file type and deletion;
- the creation of proofs of the existence of said data, files and other Dematerialized Assets anchored in the blockchain by the User, both in terms of their integrity and dating, in particular through the issue by the Company of a pdf document entitled “Certificate", intended to provide proof of the concerned Dematerialized Asset's blockchain status to any third party.
The User hereby understands and accepts that the functionality of storing data, files and other Dematerialized Assets is offered by the Company to facilitate the use of the Services, but does not constitutes a commitment by the Company with regards to the retention and return of the concerned data, files or other Dematerialized Assets. Particularly, the User acknowledges that the Company cannot be held liable in any way for the wrongdoing of the User in the storage of such data, files and other Dematerialized Assets, notably as regards an involuntary deletion of said data, files and other Dematerialized Assets by the User. The User is therefore strongly advised to keep duplicates of his/her data, files and other Dematerialized Assets outside of his or her customer area, in particular so as to always have an additional means of validating a Certificate in the event that - despite the warning provided to this effect on the Website – he/she inadvertently deletes in his/her customer area (dashboard) the particular data, file(s) and other Dematerialized Asset(s) on which the Certificate is based.
II.3 Declarations by the User
The User understands and agrees that the Company does control and/or endorse any data, files or other Dematerialized Assets uploaded by the User on the Website.
The User understands and agrees that the Company, as a provider of the Services, only registers declarations of ownership of rights or interests on the blockchain. In this context, the Company does not intervene or interfere at any time in any of the declaration made by the User.
The User understands and agrees that the Company has no knowledge or control over, nor can it monitor, said declarations, data and/or files thus used or stored by the User on the platform. The Company only enables these declarations, data, files or other Dematerialized Assets to be registered on the blockchain. Particularly, the Company enables the User to demonstrate that, at a given moment in time, he/she has associated his/her identity with an idea (or work). Thus, unlike a third party who would for example claim - days, months or years after the User has issued Certificates - that he/she stole the User's idea or work, the User would have the irrefutable proof that he/she knew about the concerned idea or work before the third party did.
The User understands and agrees that the Company cannot be held responsible for any illicit nature of the declarations data, files or other Dematerialized Assets made - and stored - by the User. The User is solely responsible for all activities carried out on the Website and for his/her use of the Services. It is therefore the User's responsibility to ensure that he/she has all the rights, authorizations and permissions required for said activities. Only the User knows whether he/she is recording the actual and true situation regarding the ownership of these rights or interests.
In summary, the User knows and expressly accepts that the Services constitute an innovative and new solution for proving the existence and date of conception/creation of (or participation in) the User’s data, files or other Dematerialized Assets. The proper functioning of the Services therefore depends on a responsible and honest use of the Services by the User, and in particular:
- the User’s responsible management of his/her own data, files or other Dematerialized Assets,
- the protection of said data, files or other Dematerialized Assets of which the User is the actual owner or co-owner and/or for which he/she has the required authorizations, and
- the communication of accurate, complete and sincere information to the best of the User’s knowledge.
The User understands and agrees that failure to comply with these requirements, and in particular any misrepresentation and/or misuse and/or misappropriation of third-party data, files or other Dematerialized Assets - albeit solely attributable to the User’s behavior - would run counter to the objective pursued by the Website and the Company, i.e. the registration of proof of anteriority on a blockchain, in a decentralized manner and worldwide, with the aim of protecting the authorship of ideas and all forms of creation and design of products or services in pure good faith.
III. Use of the Website, creation of the client area and order of a monthly or annual subscription
III.1 General information
By using the Website, with or without creating a free of charge customer area (login), and with or without taking out a subscription, the User accepts and acknowledges having read the present General Conditions and accepts them unreservedly. Access to the Website implies acceptance of the offers, requirements and conditions defined herein.
Insofar as certain Services accessible on and/or from the Website may be subject to specific conditions of use and/or sale to which the User hereby adheres and accepts in order to access said Services, if there are any contradictions between the present General Conditions and said specific particular conditions, the latter shall prevail over the present General Conditions.
The User understands and agrees that the present General Conditions are subject to change and that the Company reserves the right to modify them at any time. The General Conditions in force are those accessible on the Website each time the User connects to the Website. The Company shall inform the User of any major changes to the General Conditions and invite him/her to read the updated General Conditions by means of a message on the Website or by e-mail.
III.2 Website registration and login creation
As a natural person registering on the Website and/or using the Website on behalf of a legal entity That he/she represents, the User declares that he/she has the necessary authorizations for this purpose.
The information communicated to the Company by the User as part of the registration process is treated as strictly confidential.
The use of the Services offered on the Website is subject to the creation of a free of charge Customer area, with or without multi-factor identification, as well as to the subscription of a monthly or annual package or the purchase of single certificates. The User undertakes to provide only information that is specific to him or her, or to the legal entity that he/she represents, that is accurate and up to date, and that does not infringe the rights of any third parties or does not contravene public order and/or morality.
The User's login details and password are personal to him/her and remain his/her sole responsibility. The User is solely responsible for the safekeeping of said login details and password and any risk of loss thereof. For this reason, the User must take all necessary precautions to ensure the confidentiality, security and correct use of said login details and password in order to prevent their disclosure to unauthorized third parties. The User remains solely responsible for the use by any other person of his/her login details and password and, in particular, for all operations carried out via his/her account by authorized people or agents.
Any connection to the Website via an account and/or transmission of data carried out using a User's account is presumed to have been carried out by the holder of said account and under his or her exclusive responsibility. In the event of fraudulent use of the User's password and/or identifier, the User undertakes to inform the Company in writing as soon as possible.
Once registered, the User is given a free storage space of one (1) giga byte (Gb) as long as he/she has not purchase a monthly or annual subscription as available on the Website. Simultaneously, the Company confirms the User's account creation by sending a confirmation request to the e-mail address provided in the registration form.
The User understands and agrees that the Company collects personal data concerning the User for the purposes of registration and proper delivery of the Services. This collection and processing, carried out by the Company to enable access to the Website and use of the Services offered therein, are carried out in particular in compliance with (1) Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27th April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (hereinafter "GDPR"), as well as (2) the Swiss Federal Data Protection Act of September 25, 2020 (status as of 1st September 2023).
At any time, the Company may - and is never obliged to - ask the User to confirm any of the information provided on the Website during the registration process as regards his/her identity and of the authorization he/she has to create an account on behalf and under the name of a particular legal entity. Should the User provide incorrect information or refuse to comply with the Company's requests, the Company may at its sole discretion and without notice delete said User's account.
III.3 User’s conduct
1. General Information
The quantity and type of data, files or other Dematerialized Assets uploaded to the Ur-Ip platform are the sole responsibility of the User. The User understands and agrees that the Company does not exercise any control on said data, files or other Dematerialized Assets submitted to the Ur-Ip platform.
2. User’s commitments
The User particularly commits:
- not to use the Services to upload any data, files or other Dematerialized Assets that he/she is not entitled to use or to dispose of without permissions, particularly but not limited to any data, files or other Dematerialized Assets that may or do infringe any copyrights and related rights, patents, trademarks, designs, trade secrets, know-how, indications of sources, or any other proprietary rights of any party;
- not to use the Services to violate, intentionally or unintentionally, any kind of local, state, national or international law or regulation;
- not to disrupt or interfere with the Services or the networks or servers connected to the Services, nor to contravene the regulations or procedures of the networks or servers connected to the Services;
- not to copy, duplicate, reproduce, exchange, sell, or exploit in any other way and for any purpose, commercial or not, all or any part of the Services, access to - or use of - the Services.
3. Company’s release and indemnity
The User hereby expressly and irrevocably releases acquits and forever discharges the Company, its affiliated companies and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, representatives, independent and dependent contractors, licensees, successors and assigns of and from any and all actions, causes of action, suits, proceedings, liabilities, debts, judgments, claims and demands whatsoever in law which he/she ever had, now has, or hereafter can, shall or may have, for or by reason of, or arising directly or indirectly out of his/her use of the Website and the Services.
The User hereby agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its affiliated and associated companies, and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, representatives, independent and dependent contractors, licensees, successors and assigns from and against all claims, losses, expenses, damages and costs (including, but not limited to, direct, incidental, consequential, exemplary and indirect damages), and reasonable attorneys’ fees, resulting from or arising out of (i) a breach of these General Conditions, (ii) content integrated on the Website, (iii) the use of the Services, by the User or by any person using the User's account, or (iv) any violation of any rights of any third party.
III.4 Membership Subscriptions
1. General Information
The Company offers the User the option of subscribing to one of the various subscription packages enabling him/her to access the Services offered on the Website. The contents and practical details of each subscription package are detailed on the Website.
Subscription packages may be modified by the Company at any time. For existing subscriptions, changes shall apply a short period after the concerned announcement by the Company to all Users.
2. Payment process
Payment is exclusively made online and by credit card bearing the User's identity or that of the legal entity he/she represents.
When making a payment, the User accesses a secure server certified by a certification authority. He/she must provide his/her credit card number when completing the online payment form. The transaction is then carried out in accordance with banking security standards.
Thus, during the payment process, the Company never has access to or retains the credit card number and other information.
By communicating the bank card number, the User unconditionally accepts in advance that the Company may proceed with the secure transaction. The User therefore authorizes in advance the bank concerned to debit the credit card on the basis of the records or statements transmitted by the Company, even in the absence of signed invoices. Authorization to debit the credit card is always given for the amount of the subscription package chosen, or for the amount of the purchase of single certificates, as invoiced by the Company.
The credit card is debited following the User's click on the website, subject to full compliance with these General Conditions. If, for any reason whatsoever (opposition, refusal by the issuing center, etc.), it proves impossible to debit the sums due, the subscription package will not be registered by the Company and the User will not be able to benefit from the associated Services.
Upon confirmation and payment, the Company will acknowledge receipt by e-mail to the address provided by the User.
Once the Company has received payment, the Company undertakes to allow the User to use the Services associated with the package subscribed to for the agreed duration, except in the event of early termination.
3. Subscription duration
The subscription begins on the date a User subscribes to a subscription and is taken out for an indefinite period, unless otherwise stated in the offer. Either party may terminate the subscription at any time, subject to a thirty (30) days' notice from the date of the request to terminate the subscription via the Website.
4. Normal or early Subscription termination
On expiry of a subscription, the User must renew it if he/she wishes to continue to use the Website and the associated Services.
If the User decides to terminate his subscription early or not to renew it at the end of its term, he will no longer be able to use the associated Services and the dedicated space on the Website from that date.
The early termination of a subscription does not, however, result in the deletion of all proofs of prior subscription and certificates received in the User's customer space. As long as the User has a login, he or she can continue to view and download these certificates.
After the expiration of a subscription, the User retains all data, files and information present in his customer area (storage space) and still has the possibility of uploading files but can no longer generate new certificates from existing or new files.
Any early termination will not give rise to any refund of the price previously paid by the User to the Company. In the event that the User wishes to switch from one subscription package to another, the price of the new subscription will be billed pro rata temporis for the remaining time of the current month, instead of the price of the old subscription package for the same duration.
5. Extraordinary Subscription termination
In the event of a breach by the User of his or her obligations under these General Conditions, and in particular in the event of the provision of non-compliant identification or personalization elements and/or inaccurate or out-of-date identification information and/or in the event of infringement of third-party rights and/or violation of applicable laws and regulations and/or contravention of public morality or order, the Company may, at any time, subject to a ten (10) days' notice upon notification by e-mail to the User confirmed by e-mail with acknowledgement of receipt, exclude any User from the Website and terminate his or her registration and, where applicable, his or her subscription.
The Company may exclude the User without notice in the event of a serious and unrepairable breach by the User, without prejudice to any damages to which the Company may be entitled in this respect.
III.5 Deletion of the User’s Account
If the User deletes his/her Account, he/she loses the current subscription if he/she has not cancelled it beforehand.
Deletion of the customer area also implies the definitive deletion of all data, files, Certificates and login information provided by the User on the Website and still hosted on it. It is therefore the User's responsibility to ensure that all such data, files, Certificates and information belonging to him or her have been recorded by any appropriate means prior to the deletion of his or her customer area.
It is therefore the sole responsibility of the User to inform any co-creator, co-author or other participant in any creation, work or Dematerialized Asset of the deletion of his account and the consequences thereof.
The Company may however retain metadata and Website usage information by the User to the exclusion of any of his/her personal data.
IV. Miscellaneous
Should any provision of the present General Conditions be declared invalid or unenforceable by a competent court, it shall be deemed unwritten and all other provisions of the present General Conditions shall remain in full force and effect unless its unenforceability materially affects the balance of the General Terms and Conditions.
Titles and subtitles indicated in the present General Conditions are for reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of said General Conditions.
The fact that the Company does not avail itself of the benefit of a right or of a breach by a User of any of its obligations under these General Conditions shall not be interpreted for the future as an abdication or waiver by the Company of the obligation in question.
The present General Conditions are expressly governed by Swiss law. Any dispute relating to the use of the Website and Services by any User, relating to the said General Conditions, their interpretation or their execution, in the absence of an amicable agreement reached following the occurrence of such a dispute, shall fall within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of Geneva, Switzerland, notwithstanding plurality of defendants or appeal, even for provisional measures, with the exception of appeals to the Swiss Federal Court.
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