WIPO’s digital business service for safeguarding intellectual assets, WIPO PROOF, is now available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Korean, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

The digital fingerprint service, launched last year, provides a certificate containing information to prove the existence and possession of an intellectual asset at a precise point in time.

So far it has registered customer in 119 countries. WIPO states:

In a world increasingly characterized by cross-border collaboration, the availability of WIPO PROOF in so many languages is a boon. Economic activity is now predominantly digital – services like WIPO PROOF facilitate business transactions across national and regional boundaries. The use of intellectual assets to drive economic growth will intensify the need for WIPO PROOF to support innovators and creators in the event of international disputes related to such assets. WIPO PROOF’s multi-lingual capabilities mitigate risks associated to international disputes because documentary evidence, designed for dispute settlement, is available in the languages of many of the world’s largest jurisdictions.

Customers can acquire printable WIPO PROOF premium certificates, in any of the available 10 languages, and use these in arbitration, mediation, or court cases where submission of evidence must be done in the local language.

Find out more about WIPO PROOF on WIPO’s website here.

The MARQUES Class 46 blog reported on its launch in May last year.