The only real protection against theft of Intellectual Property is complete secrecy. Although this is not exactly simple to implement and manage, it is a viable means of protection.

The first level of protection is using Non Disclosure Agreements (NDA) to legally shield against the unauthorized leaking of confidential information. The people who are (closely) involved with our developments, are under NDA.

One of the most renowned companies that use this method of secrecy, is Coca-Cola: the recipe of their product is not patented, but protected by a very convoluted setup of several people, each having a small part of the information.

From the start, the ASTRID-project aimed at developing fundamental technology for bringing fully autonomous decision capabilities to any application domain that needs it.

This basically boils down to the development of Artificial General Intelligence, and as such, this is different from developing 'just' a specific product or service, and this differentiation is what Deep-Tech stands for.

Furthermore, because Deep-Tech stands for 'fundamental' technology, the development is aimed at helping Humanity to progress, by empowering all kinds of existing technology with new possibilities.