Prior art record

Dated public disclosures

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What this record is, and what it is not

What it establishes. That the described techniques were publicly available from the dates shown. From those dates the material is in the public domain and cannot be validly claimed as novel by anyone.

What it does not establish. Any exclusive right. A defensive publication is the opposite of a patent: it places the work beyond exclusive appropriation, including by its own author. Under the absolute novelty rule of the European Patent Convention these disclosures are prior art against this company as much as against anyone else, with no grace period. They are published deliberately, to keep the field open.

Timeline

Dates read from the issuing source, not from internal records.

2014
Copyright
Internet Identity Card — original work of authorship
Registered TX 8-508-373 in November 2017; date of creation recorded as 2014.
US Copyright Office record ↗
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25 May 2016
Trademark
INTERNET IDENTITY CARD — UK trademark, class 45
UK00003166480. Renewed May 2026, in force to May 2036.
UK IPO case page ↗
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12 May 2026
Defensive publication
TOTP-derived symmetric keys
TDCommons #10079 · CC BY 4.0
TDCommons #10079 ↗
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19 May 2026
Defensive publication
Dual-passphrase self-verifying documents
TDCommons #10167 · CC BY 4.0
TDCommons #10167 ↗
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8 June 2026
Defensive publication
Composite defense-in-depth
TDCommons #10394 · CC BY 4.0
TDCommons #10394 ↗
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5 July 2026
Defensive publication
Multi-zone neutralization v2
TDCommons #10795 · CC BY 4.0
TDCommons #10795 ↗
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5 July 2026
Defensive publication
In-file stapled freshness
TDCommons #10796 · CC BY 4.0
TDCommons #10796 ↗
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23 July 2026
Defensive publication
Post-quantum ready credential — hybrid ECDSA P-256 and ML-DSA-65
TDCommons #11121 · CC BY 4.0
TDCommons #11121 ↗
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1 August 2026
Research deposit
IIC v9.0 specification corpus
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21738537. Deposit recorded 2026-08-01 11:49:03 UTC. The record also carries a declared publication date of 2026-07-22, which is metadata set by the depositor; the deposit timestamp is the one a third party can rely on.
Zenodo record ↗
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1 August 2026
Standards record
The IIC Credential Format — IETF Internet-Draft
draft-benaudis-iic-credential-00, submitted 2026-08-01 12:21:39 UTC, expires 2027-02-02. An expired draft remains permanently in the archive.
IETF Datatracker ↗
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Scope

The documentation, the specifications and the disclosures listed here are public. The generator application and the IIC Wallet are not published and are not downloadable from this site; access is granted through a controlled onboarding process. Nothing on this page should be read as a claim of certification, accreditation or endorsement by any authority.