Built for Research Directors
Protect Research Breakthroughs Before They Reach the Journal
Your lab generates discoveries worth millions, but the gap between breakthrough and publication leaves your IP vulnerable. immut timestamps research data, findings, and methods to establish priority instantly, without delaying your path to publication.
The Challenge
What Keeps Research Directors Up at Night
IP protection challenges that research directors face every day.
The Pre-Publication Vulnerability Window
Between discovery and publication lies weeks or months where your research has no formal protection. Competing labs monitoring your grant applications, conference abstracts, or hiring patterns could rush to publish first.
Collaboration Blurs IP Ownership
Multi-institutional projects, visiting researchers, and industry partnerships create complex ownership questions. Without clear evidence of who contributed what and when, disputes can take years to resolve.
Grant Requirements Demand IP Documentation
Funding bodies increasingly require demonstrable IP management. Producing retrospective documentation is time-consuming and may not satisfy auditors looking for contemporaneous evidence.
Researcher Mobility Creates Risk
Post-docs and PhD students move between institutions, taking knowledge with them. Establishing what IP belonged to your lab before their departure is critical but often undocumented.
The Solution
How immut Fits Your Workflow
Blockchain-verified IP protection designed for how research directors actually work.
Timestamp Every Research Milestone
Upload experimental data, lab notebooks, findings, and methods as your team generates them. Each timestamp proves your lab had this knowledge on a specific date.
Protect Before Sharing With Collaborators
Timestamp data packages before sending them to partner institutions or industry collaborators. If ownership disputes arise, you have blockchain-verified proof of what you contributed.
Build a Verifiable Discovery Timeline
Create a comprehensive record that satisfies grant auditors, technology transfer offices, and legal teams. Every milestone is independently verifiable on the blockchain.
Complement Your Publication Strategy
Timestamping does not delay publication. It takes 60 seconds, costs nothing for basic use, and adds a layer of protection that peer review dates alone cannot provide.
Real-World Scenario
A Day in the Life: Research Director Protecting a Multi-Lab Study
Dr. Chen leads a materials science lab with two post-docs and four PhD students. Her team has made a breakthrough in polymer conductivity that could be worth millions. Two other labs are known to be working in the same area.
Dr. Chen has her team upload experimental results, synthesis protocols, and characterisation data to immut every Friday. It takes each researcher about 5 minutes.
Before presenting preliminary findings at a conference, she timestamps the full dataset and draft paper. This establishes priority months before the peer-reviewed publication date.
When a collaborating institution claims co-discovery, Dr. Chen produces blockchain certificates showing her lab's results pre-date the collaboration agreement by four months.
The university's technology transfer office uses the timestamped evidence to negotiate licensing terms from a position of strength, securing a favourable deal.
Clear, verifiable proof of discovery priority that protected millions in potential licensing revenue.
Benefits
Why Research Directors Choose immut
Priority Without Publication
Establish discovery dates without rushing to publish. Protect your research timeline while maintaining rigorous scientific standards.
Grant Compliance
Provide funding bodies with verifiable evidence of IP management and innovation timelines throughout the project lifecycle.
Collaboration Confidence
Share data with partners knowing your contribution is timestamped and verifiable. Focus on the science, not the politics.
Institutional Memory
Build a permanent record of your lab's innovations that persists through staff changes, restructuring, and leadership transitions.
Zero Disclosure Risk
Only cryptographic hashes are stored. Your actual data, methods, and findings remain completely confidential.
Minutes Per Week
Protecting a week's worth of research takes less time than writing a single email. No training, no legal expertise needed.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Will timestamping delay our publication timeline?
Not at all. Timestamping a file takes 60 seconds. Most research directors have their team spend 5-10 minutes per week uploading key files. It has zero impact on your publication schedule.
Is this recognised by technology transfer offices?
Yes. TTOs increasingly recognise blockchain timestamps as valid evidence of creation dates. The verifiable, immutable nature of blockchain records makes them ideal for establishing priority in licensing negotiations and IP disputes.
Can my entire research group use one account?
Yes. Team plans allow multiple researchers to timestamp under one institutional account. Each upload is individually attributed, creating clear records of who contributed what.
How does this compare to lab notebooks?
Lab notebooks are essential but have limitations: they can be lost, damaged, or challenged as post-dated. Blockchain timestamps provide an independent, cryptographically verifiable layer of evidence that complements physical notebooks.
Does this work for computational research and datasets?
Absolutely. You can timestamp any file type including code, datasets, simulation results, images, and documentation. Computational researchers often find it particularly valuable since their work is inherently digital.
Ready to Protect Your IP?
Book a call to see how immut gives research directors instant, blockchain-verified proof of their innovations. Get protected on the call.