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Proofbox started with a real customer need: defensive publications without the usual side effects.
Every existing provider dumps prior art into open databases: perfect for competitors running monitoring tools and AI systems scraping R&D pipelines at scale. A lot of IP teams look at that and walk away. They want to preserve their freedom to operate, not broadcast their roadmap.
So the real challenge was the balancing act: enough publicity for a disclosure to actually count as prior art, enough discretion to establish prior art.
Proofbox solves it by publishing discreetly and simultaneously making every publication globally discoverable, compliant with EPC, PCT, 35 U.S.C. and other frameworks.
Happy to dig into the hard questions — legal, technical, commercial.
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About Proofbox on Product Hunt
“Strategize, Not Oversize Your IP-Budget”
Proofbox was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #159 on the daily leaderboard. Publish inventions as verifiable prior art. Proofbox uses a unique approach for discreet defensive publishing to preserve your space to innovate.
Proofbox was featured in SaaS (41.7k followers) and Legal (6.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 44.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Proofbox?
Proofbox was hunted by Johannes Hiesmayr. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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