The contribution is voluntary, and always credited by both. Should new patents emerge from this study, the partners agree to apply for registration as a team. They are both authors. They start with Matt Karwowski on the first place for the first patent. All other extensions of rights and all future versions of this agreement will be jointly approved, in full consensus, each partner having one vote.
Confidentiality is guaranteed.
Participants agree to offer original, non-forged data over which they have full responsibility. Please date and time stamp all photographs and clearly mark a confidential code on the iris image submitted. You may add clinical and other observations, but you and you only know the identity of the persons involved. Both partners agree not to process images which are clearly identified as belonging to particular individuals of known identity, were such data mistakenly be included in submissions. Both partners agree to select submissions on a random basis and hold their data for third parties, which are qualified independent auditors and peers.