The group holds its software developments, its processes, its trademarks and its know-how at holding level, and licenses them to its operating branches.
The three layers of protection
Protection rests on three complementary layers: copyright in the software, whose priority is established by deposit, trademark law, and trade secrecy for the elements whose publication would destroy their value.
What this page does not say, and says so
We do not publish an inventory of our filings. It is disclosed within a due diligence review, under a confidentiality agreement.
What is genuinely hard to reproduce
Not the connectivity layer. Reading an industrial protocol is documented and accessible.
It is the whole formed by the physical validation engines, the orchestration logic that decides which computation to trigger, the rules of the safety interlock, and the corpus of operating data that refines them. Those four elements reinforce one another and cannot be acquired separately.
