The protection of Intellectual Property (IP) is essential to any business. Whether this be documentation, invention discovery notes, electronic notebooks, drawings, etc. a company's patent position is tightly tied to the timely recording of information. This challenge is made even more difficult from a security standpoint, when this information is electronic, and in many cases, Web based.

There are several electronic notebook applications on the market, and it is a relatively simple matter to integrate the Kyberpass TrustPlatform into those applications to provide a high level of information security. One aspect of this security solution is electronic witnessing, as described below.

Electronic Witnessing - one service a bank, or other trusted institution, can provide to customers is a secure electronic witnessing (notary) function for signing documents. When the document is submitted to the bank electronically, the bank can sign it with the banks' digital signature and use the server time stamp to record the date and time of signing. In this way electronic notebook records can receive a dated and timed, legally admissible digital signature without have to seek a notary for a wet signature.