Independent dating of IP

A cornerstone of innovation is intellectual property. One major headache is proving original authorship of ideas, music writing, patents and other IP. People often keep dated logbooks or post information back to themselves in sealed envelopes to prove dates of ownership. For tech this is important in the US where first to invent owns the IP rather than first to file as in the EU.

A new company called Codel is offering a service to independently log and date digital based intellectual property. It is even free for a limited amount of data. It's a great place to upload lab notebooks, written documents and music if you're that way inclined.

Each file receives a unique "fingerprint" the Codelmark on registration which can be used to independently verify the IP. I'm sure this service will prove very popular with musicians, writers and people creating IP for US filing.