What You’re Buying: Reading Material, Not Intellectual Property

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An Important Distinction Every Buyer Should Understand

The inventions in CRI-ONE’s portfolio represent something rare — ideas that took years to conceive, develop, and validate. Technologies that don’t exist anywhere else in the world. From energy systems that could power the next century to health discoveries that rewrite medical textbooks, this is work born from deep, original thinking.

When you purchase a mathematical deposition or an evaluation license, you’re getting access to that thinking — as reading material. You’re not buying intellectual property. You’re not buying the right to build, produce, or sell anything. You’re buying the privilege of studying work that could change your industry.

Why We Sell Reading Material

These inventions are trade secrets. The ideas, methods, and discoveries in our portfolio are the product of relentless innovation — and sharing them openly without protection would undermine the very thing that makes them extraordinary.

At the same time, we know that no serious organization is going to invest in technology they haven’t studied. So we created a model where you can access increasingly detailed information — from Proof of Function all the way through the Evaluation License — as reading material. Each stage reveals more of the picture, while keeping the intellectual property where it belongs: with CRI-ONE, until a full acquisition brings it to its new home.

All sales are final because of the nature of what’s being shared. Once trade secret material has been delivered, it cannot be unseen — and that’s precisely why the protections exist.

What This Means for You

When you purchase a deposition or evaluation license:

You can read, study, and internally evaluate the material — and let it inspire your strategic thinking
You can share it with your authorized team under the terms of the mutual NDA
You can use what you learn to decide whether full acquisition is right for your business
You cannot produce, manufacture, or commercialize based on what you’ve read
You cannot share the material outside the terms of your NDA
You cannot duplicate or reverse-engineer the trade secrets contained in the material

Both depositions and evaluation licenses require an executed mutual NDA before any material is delivered.

When Does IP Actually Transfer?

Intellectual property — including production rights, commercialization rights, and ownership — transfers only at the Full Acquisition stage. That’s where the technology truly becomes yours through complete IP transfer. That’s where you stop reading about the future and start building it.

Everything before full acquisition is about giving you the knowledge and confidence to take that leap. The reading material is your window into what’s possible. The acquisition is what makes it real.

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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