Question 1

What is IP exposure?

Accepted Answer

IP exposure is the estimated financial and legal risk that arises when original works, contracts, or deliverables are not protected by a qualified electronic seal or timestamp. Without qualified protection, documents have no legal presumption of authenticity, making them vulnerable to ownership disputes, validity challenges, and costly litigation.

Question 2

How is the IP exposure figure calculated?

Accepted Answer

The calculator uses your industry, the number of original works you produce per year, and the average value of each work to estimate how many documents are statistically likely to face a legal challenge over five years. It then multiplies that count by the average dispute cost for your industry. All outputs are illustrative estimates, not legal advice.

Question 3

Which industries have the highest IP dispute rates?

Accepted Answer

Music and entertainment (5%), fiduciaries and IP law firms (4% each), and software and technology (3%) typically see the highest document-validity challenge rates. Architecture and creative agencies run at around 2%. These figures are illustrative estimates based on industry litigation patterns.

Question 4

What counts as an original work or deliverable for this calculator?

Accepted Answer

Any document, file, design, code, contract, report, drawing, composition, or creative output that you author and that has commercial or legal value. This includes client contracts, audit reports, design files, software builds, architectural drawings, musical compositions, and legal briefs.

Question 5

How do qualified electronic seals protect documents?

Accepted Answer

A qualified electronic seal, issued by an accredited Qualified Trust Service Provider under eIDAS Article 35 or ZertES, cryptographically binds a document to a certified timestamp and the sealing organisation. This creates legal presumption of authenticity: in a dispute, the burden of proof shifts to whoever challenges the document's validity, not to the document owner. Swiss Trust Layer issues seals via Swisscom Trust Services, an EU-listed QTSP.

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