Brand & trademark guidelines

Last updated: May 5, 2026

AxIA Protocol® is a registered trademark of Nexera Technologies SL. This guide describes how third parties may (and may not) refer to our brand, logo, product names, and verification badge.

Ownership

"Axia" and "AxIA Protocol", the shield logo, and all derived logotypes are registered trademarks (®) before the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (OEPM), owned exclusively by Nexera Technologies SL. The product names Axia Sign™, Axia Verify™, Axia Trust™, Axia Notary™, Axia Entity™, Axia Insights™ and Axia Agent™ are unregistered commercial trademarks (™) of Nexera Technologies SL. The protocol specification is published under CC BY 4.0 and the reference implementation under Apache 2.0; neither license grants rights over our trademarks.

Intellectual property rights

All source code, visual design, documentation, schemas, test vectors and content published by AxIA Protocol are protected by copyright (©) automatically vested in Nexera Technologies SL under Spanish Law (RDL 1/1996, Intellectual Property Act) and applicable international treaties (Berne Convention, WIPO Copyright Treaty). Open-source licensing (Apache 2.0, CC BY 4.0) on specific components does not constitute a waiver of ownership, nor does it grant any rights over our trademarks, logos, or the verification badge.

Data model, AI and protocol design

The AxIA Protocol data model, verification schemas, trust scoring methodologies, provenance graphs, relationship taxonomies, evidence models, signals (axia.signals.v0), workflow designs and protocol architecture constitute proprietary intellectual property of Nexera Technologies SL, unless explicitly released under an open-source license. This protection extends to Entity, Verify, Insights, Trust Score, Provenance Chains and Signals, even where a third party independently reimplements the underlying code. Use of these models to train, fine-tune or derive artificial intelligence systems without written authorization is prohibited.

Permitted use

Referring to AxIA Protocol descriptively, in journalism or academic work.
Stating that your product "implements AxIA Protocol" or is "compatible with AxIA Protocol v0.1".
Linking to axiaprotocol.com using the official name and spelling.
Showing screenshots of public documentation with attribution.

Prohibited use

Naming your product, service, or company "Axia", "AxIA Protocol", or any confusingly similar name.
Registering domains, trademarks, social accounts, or handles containing "Axia" without written authorization.
Modifying, recoloring, or distorting the Axia shield logo.
Implying sponsorship, certification, or partnership with AxIA Protocol without a formal agreement.
Using the brand in misleading, unlawful, derogatory, or disinformation-related contexts.

Protected badge

The AxIA Protocol verification badge (the <axia-badge>, <axia-verify> and <axia-page-badge> components) is a trust signal paid for by our customers and protected both legally and technically.

May only be displayed on domains whose identity and ownership have been verified by AxIA Protocol.
Copying the badge, its pixels, screenshots, or HTML snippet onto unauthorized domains is prohibited.
Modifying the badge code to suppress or falsify the hostname check or attribution to AxIA Protocol is prohibited.
Replicating the badge's visual design to create your own confusingly similar verification seals is prohibited.

Active technical defenses

Client-side hostname check: the badge self-flags as "Domain mismatch" when the embedding domain doesn't match the verified identity.
Server-side resolution via badge-id: the canonical domain is fetched from our API, not from the HTML attribute, preventing tampering.
Origin-mismatch banner on canonical pages (/domain/:host and /verify) when the visitor arrives from an unauthorized referring domain.
AxIA Protocol may deploy automated detection systems (crawlers, monitoring services and signal analysis) to identify unauthorized badge usage and domain impersonation.
Incident logging (axia.signals.v0 — badge_abuse_detected) and a misuse dashboard for the verified-domain owner.

Abuse reporting procedure

If you detect misuse of the badge, the brand, the logo or the AxIA Protocol name, send a report with the following information to contact@axiaprotocol.com:

Exact URL of the infringing content (with dated screenshots if possible).
Description of the misuse (copied badge, brand used as own, modified logo, etc.).
Your contact details and, if applicable, proof of ownership of the affected domain or trademark.

Acknowledgment within 48 business hours. After review, we may issue takedown notices (DMCA, LSSI-CE art. 17, Digital Services Act art. 16), revoke fraudulent identities and/or pursue any further legal action.

Revocation and suspension

Nexera Technologies SL reserves the right to suspend, revoke or invalidate any verification, badge, identity, attestation or trust signal obtained through fraud, misrepresentation, unauthorized access, policy violations or abusive behavior, without prejudice to any further legal action.

Scraping and bulk extraction

Automated scraping, bulk extraction, cloning or replication of verification records, trust data, provenance information, badges or dashboard content without prior written authorization from Nexera Technologies SL is prohibited. This includes the use of such data to train models, build derivative products or reconstruct the AxIA Protocol provenance graph.

Impersonation and phishing

Any attempt to use AxIA Protocol trademarks, badges, verification records or visual elements to impersonate, misrepresent or falsely suggest affiliation with a verified entity may result in legal action, including criminal complaints for impersonation, takedown notices and civil claims for damages.

Requests and reports

For trademark requests, co-branding agreements, or to report misuse, write to contact@axiaprotocol.com.

Nexera Technologies SL reserves the right to pursue legal action against any unauthorized use of the Axia and AxIA Protocol marks that causes confusion, dilution, or unfair advantage.