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How the Evaluation License Helps You Decide If an Invention Fits Your Business
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The Technologies That Change Industries Don’t Come Along Every Day
When a technology comes along that could fundamentally reshape your industry — a new kind of energy cell that outlasts anything on the market, a manufacturing process that turns waste into value, a platform that redefines what your products can do — you don’t make that decision lightly. You need to see it. Study it. Let your smartest people take it apart on paper.
That’s exactly what the CRI-ONE evaluation license is for.
What the Evaluation License Gives You
The evaluation license grants you access to comprehensive reading material for technical review of the technology you’re considering. This isn’t a brochure. It’s the kind of depth that lets your engineers debate the physics, your scientists challenge the methodology, and your leadership weigh the strategic implications.
It’s enough to answer the questions that matter:
- Does this technology solve a problem we actually have?
- Can our existing infrastructure support it?
- What would implementation look like for our specific operation?
- Does the science hold up to our team’s scrutiny?
- Could this be the competitive advantage that defines our next decade?
Each step in our acquisition process is independent — buyers can enter at any step. If you already have confidence in the fundamentals, you can go directly to an evaluation license.
What the Evaluation License Is Not
This is an important distinction: the evaluation license is not a production license. It does not grant you the right to manufacture, reproduce, or commercialize the technology. You are purchasing reading material — the right to review and evaluate — not intellectual property. No IP is transferred at this stage.
Production rights, IP ownership, and commercialization rights are only available through full acquisition. The evaluation stage exists purely to help you make that decision with full confidence.
The evaluation license also requires an executed mutual NDA. The material you receive contains trade secrets, and both parties agree to protect each other’s confidential information.
Why This Approach Works
The most consequential technologies deserve the most thoughtful evaluation. We built this process because we believe that a company willing to study, question, and truly understand an invention is the kind of company that will do extraordinary things with it.
You invest in understanding first. You bring your best people to the table. You take the time you need. And when you’re ready to move forward, the evaluation license fee credits toward your full acquisition price — so your investment in due diligence becomes part of your investment in the technology itself.
Getting Started
If you’re ready to see what’s possible, the evaluation license is your path forward. Contact our team to discuss which technology you’d like to evaluate and to begin the mutual NDA process.
Important Terms
- Evaluation license fees credit toward the full acquisition price.
- All sales are final — these are trade secrets.
- Depositions and evaluation licenses sell reading material only — no intellectual property is transferred.
- Evaluation licenses do NOT grant production rights, only reading and evaluation.
- Depositions and evaluation licenses require an executed mutual NDA.
- Governing law: State of Georgia, USA.
View the full acquisition process at cri-one.com/store/acquisition-steps.html
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