This is a draft, not legal advice
This page was prepared as a working template and has not been reviewed by a qualified lawyer. Bracketed fields must be completed and the whole document reviewed by counsel in your jurisdiction before you rely on it or present it to a customer.
1. In short
Pramaan gives you evidence: who made a piece of work, when, and whose copy leaked. What that evidence is worth in a dispute is for you, your lawyer and, in the end, a court to decide. Pramaan cannot stop every copy, and we say so everywhere.
This disclaimer is part of our Terms of Service. Where it and the Terms differ, the Terms apply.
2. Not legal advice
Aitele Research LLP makes software. We are not a law firm, patent agent or trademark attorney, and nothing on this website, in the Pramaan app, its guides or its emails is legal, tax or financial advice. Using Pramaan does not create a professional relationship between you and us. Before you rely on a proof in a dispute, file a patent, or act against someone over a leaked copy, talk to a qualified professional where you are.
3. Proof of invention
A Pramaan proof shows that these exact files existed no later than a given time, and that they were signed with a particular key. The timestamp comes from a public blockchain, and anyone can check it without asking us.
It does not show:
- that you, rather than someone else, had the idea, or that it is new, useful or not obvious;
- that you own the rights in the work, or that no one else made the same thing earlier;
- anything about files you did not record, or about how a recorded file was later changed.
A proof is not a patent, a copyright registration or a trademark, and does not replace filing for one. Patent systems generally reward whoever files first, so keeping a dated record does not by itself protect an invention; filing deadlines can pass while you keep one. Whether a court accepts a proof as evidence, and what weight it gives it, depends on the court and its rules on electronic records. Keep your proof files, your signing key and the original files safe: without them, a proof cannot be checked.
4. Licence protection
Pramaan seals each copy of your software to one computer's security chip and records every release on a public blockchain. It does not make software uncopyable: anything a licensed customer can see on their own screen can be captured, and a determined attacker with full control of a computer may observe what runs on it. The full list of limits is in our Terms of Service and on Where it's used.
5. Leak tracing
When a leaked copy is found, Pramaan can name the licence it most likely came from. In our tests no innocent customer was wrongly named, but tracing is a matter of very high probability, not certainty, and a copy can leave its licensed computer without its owner's knowledge: a stolen laptop, a shared office, a compromised account.
Treat a trace as strong evidence to investigate, not as a verdict. Do not accuse anyone publicly on a trace alone, and follow the law where you are when you act on one.
6. Marketplace apps
Apps on Pramaan Marketplace are made and sold by their publishers, not by us. We review every release before it goes live and scan it for malware, but review lowers the risk rather than removing it. An approved app is not certified by us as safe, accurate or fit for any purpose. See the Marketplace Terms.
7. Blockchains and money
- Records on a public blockchain are public and permanent. Neither you nor we can edit or erase them.
- Networks can be congested, change, split or stop. Transaction fees vary, and a failed transaction can still cost a fee.
- The value of ETH and BTC can rise or fall sharply. Stablecoins such as USDC and USDT aim to track the US dollar but can lose that link, and their issuers can freeze addresses. BTC is used as a wrapped token, which depends on the custodian or bridge behind it. Nothing on this website is a recommendation to buy, hold or sell any digital asset, and Pramaan does not exchange currencies.
- You alone control your wallet, including the Pramaan Wallet: its key stays on your computer and we never hold it. We cannot recover a lost key or recovery phrase, or reverse a payment.
8. Security chips
Protection is strongest on physical computers with a TPM 2.0 security chip. On computers without one, Pramaan falls back to a software key and says so. Virtual machines bind more loosely, and some computers restrict the chip's clock or tamper counter, which affects how firmly time limits such as free trials can be enforced. Security chips are strong, not invincible.
9. Figures and sources
Market sizes, losses to piracy and other figures on this website come from the third-party sources we cite beside them. They were accurate to our knowledge when published, may since have changed, and are given for context only. Mentioning an industry, organisation or product does not mean it uses or endorses Pramaan. Examples and test results describe what we observed in our own tests, not a guarantee of what you will see.
10. Trademarks
Pramaan and the Pramaan seal are trademarks of Aitele Research LLP[, registration status]. Other names and logos, including those of the networks and social platforms we link to, belong to their owners and are used only to identify them.
11. Contact
Aitele Research LLP
Registered office: 105/104 Sandilya, Sardanagar Para, Sitamarhi, Bihar 843302, India
Head office: F-109, CRS Tower, Chattarpur, New Delhi 110074, India
Questions or corrections: hello@aiteleresearch.com