Patentability review published on Zenodo (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.17074034)

Our patentability review is officially published on Zenodo — the open research platform operated by CERN in partnership with OpenAIRE and the European Commission. The report has received a permanent DOI and is citable under a Creative Commons licence. This means our innovation has been made academically searchable, citation-ready and permanently documented within European research infrastructure.

Publication details

• Title: "Automated process of creating a company"
• Resource type: Report (Patentability Review)
• Published: 23 May 2023
• Version: v1
• DOI (this version): 10.5281/zenodo.17074034
• DOI (all versions): 10.5281/zenodo.17074033
• File size: 2.4 MB (PDF)
• Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
• Publisher: Zenodo (powered by the CERN Data Centre / InvenioRDM)

The authors

The report is signed by three contributors that reflect both the ownership and the research foundation behind the solution:

• Morten Ims — Founder & CEO, Intermediary AS (rights holder)
• Torben Wind Meyhoff — Chair of the Board and commercial rights holder
• Laura Mannering — Researcher

Why Zenodo?

Zenodo is not just any publishing platform. It is shared infrastructure established by the research community itself, funded by:

• CERN — the European Organisation for Nuclear Research
• OpenAIRE — the European Commission's infrastructure for open research
• The European Commission — through Horizon Europe and its predecessors

Content on Zenodo is assigned permanent DOIs, indexed by research search engines and preserved in CERN's data centre over the long term. For us this means our patentability review is not sitting in a drawer as an internal document — it is part of the European knowledge commons.

What the report covers

The report sets out the basis for why our concept — automated, cross-border company formation with digital identification, AML/KYC integration and signing using Qualified Electronic Signatures (QES) — represents a new and independent approach. The Norwegian Patent Office has, in turn, confirmed the patentability in its separate review. Together these form two parallel validation tracks:

1. The Norwegian state track — the Norwegian Patent Office's patentability review
2. The open research track — the Zenodo publication with a permanent DOI

Citation (APA style)

Ims, M., Meyhoff, T. W., & Mannering, L. (2023). Automated process of creating a company. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17074034

Visibility in numbers

The report has already attracted notable attention:

• 428 views
• 197 downloads
• Available under an open licence for researchers, investors, partners and authorities

For a niche GovTech topic these are solid numbers, confirming that the content is reaching its intended audience in the European research and innovation community.

Strategic significance

The Zenodo publication completes our intellectual property foundation:

• Trademark registered with the Norwegian Patent Office (reg. no. 328829, classes 35, 42, 45)
• Patentability review confirmed by the Norwegian Patent Office
• Permanent DOI via Zenodo / CERN — durable academic documentation
• EU labels InvestEU Portal and EIC Partner via EuroQuity (Bpifrance)
• Made in Norway certification from Innovation Norway

For investors performing due diligence the Zenodo DOI is a clear signal: our innovation does not exist only as an internal note. It is verifiably published, time-stamped and openly available in European research infrastructure.

→ Read the report on Zenodo (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.17074034)