Creative Barcode users are supported by, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Centre

Creative Barcode is the easiest, fastest and most time and cost efficient way for concept originators to manage their intellectual property worldwide.

And it's a lot more than just a means of authenticating & protecting your work worldwide. You also join a community of creatives, brand owners, universities and intermediaries who all value original work and abide by the principles of the Trust Charter.

Each barcode you create contains the specific project details, your ownership details and unique ID number. The project barcode is applied to all files associated with each innovation concept & enables it's development to be tracked & valued from concept to completion.

What’s more, there are two styles of the Barcode. One is for concepts and one is for completed works. Both uphold ‘the value of creativity and permission based use’ message and are quick & easy to create using the barcode generator.

1.       For use on ‘pre-commercialised concepts’ sent to a known recipient through file transfer system where the Trust Charter is accepted before download of files is permissible. Automatic copyright does not protect concept works, Creative Barcode and ethics does. Faster, easier, more visible & more robust than an NDA

2.       For use on completed works displayed in the public domain for marketing purposes online, on exhibition panels and marketing materials. Scan of barcode leads to Creators contact details, web and your social media such as Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

 What does it cost?

That’s the best bit – Just £30 plus vat gets you annual membership, the barcode generator, 5 barcodes and your company profile in the community directory.

That’s it. Buy more barcodes when needed.

Remember it’s just ‘one’ barcode 'per' entire project - apply to ‘all’ files from initial sketch through to final production drawings and in all correspondence with third parties, suppliers & prospective buyers

Barcodes are also very easy to create.

Here’s how

1.       Signup and join the Community.

2.       Download the App (paid members only)

3.       Enter title and contact details.

4.       Click on create barcode.

5.       Save barcode as a jpeg using project name as title

6.       Insert into all documents relating to that project, no matter how many pages, images or files

7.       Click here to read the Trust Charter

Unlimited uses of ‘CB Secure’ file transfer & tracking system

When maximum security is required before disclosing ‘concepts & proposals’ send your barcoded files through the secure file tracking service built into the App. When the file recipient receives your email they agree to the Creative Barcode® Trust Charter before downloading your files.  This legally robust 'agreement' warrants to the recipient that the works are authentic and they warrant to you not to use or commercialised any part of your works without your permission.

Couldn't be easier or fairer

Ideal use of Barcodes

The use of digital barcodes is most ideal to denote original concepts when undertaking any new business activity necessitating disclosure of works & proposals.

•  to support new business pitches, proposals and tenders;
•  to support own concept generation and their protection during early stage (pre-patent; non-patentable) disclosures to potential industry and co-creation partners; 
• to support concepts entered into open-innovation, crowd sourcing and other styles of competition and
• to support strategic new business proposals during pre-appointment and pre-contract discussions with potential clients or co-creation partners.
• To disclose confidential information not found in the public domain
• To support IP management of Open Innovation competitions
• To support permission-based digital rights management
• To support marketing, PR and new business

'Ideas' alone are 'not' automatically protected under Intellectual Property law. They are under Creative Barcode.

Creative Barcode® digital, Innovation & Creativity Protection system facilitates a legally robust ‘agreement’ of trust between Creator and the authorised recipient of file/s. That Trust Agreement is simply based on Creators authenticity warranty to the file recipient and their warranty to the Creator not to disclose, commercialise or use any file content without your permission. It is legally robust & enforceable

Creative Barcode has enabled a safe environment for conversations to take place and deal negotiations to proceed.  

More visible, faster, easier and more useful than a non-disclosure

It’s not always possible to secure a non-disclosure agreement. Time delays in doing so can halt progress of time sensitive innovations or other commercial activities.

In Open Innovation activities that might involve dozen’s or even 100’s of participants, setting up individual NDA’s in advance with a myriad of parties is neither time nor cost efficient. Creative Barcode digital protection system and agreement to operate under the terms of the Trust Charter is easier by far. 

NDA’s are most often generic documents that are neither wholly specific nor tailored to a particular disclosure, without legal experts & time & cost involved.  

NDA's are not visible throughout the concept to commercialisation journey or during the on-going development or negotiations.

NDA’s only state that information may not be disclosed but they do not demonstrate what has been disclosed.

With the use of the Creative Barcode Innovation & Creativity Protection system ‘one’ unique ID barcode is copied across all files and correspondence disclosed and shared from beginning to end.

It shows what has been disclosed and by whom throughout that journey including design iterations, new knowledge, specifications and so forth.

This enables the entire ‘body of work’ to be recorded and evolved under the same Trust Charter agreement. Tt enables IP to be accrued along the journey to assist with valuations and investment and support deal negotiations.

There will be occasions when, following on from early-conversations, the parties may wish to put an NDA in place. However that will become an obvious need when both parties wish to proceed further and the terms of that progress are known.

Creative Barcode® equitably protects the interests of all parties transacting.

Any questions please contact team@creativebarcode.com