Increasingly, large corporations are also patenting blockchain technology, although their patents tend to revolve around their core businesses; for example Visa, ...

The issue of patent eligibility (i.e., 35 U.S.C. §101) remains an important hurdle for blockchain patents in litigation. As we discussed previously , the district court case of Rady v.

A similar upward trend can be found in the number of blockchain-related patents issued by the USPTO, where 36 patents relating to blockchain were issued in 2017—up from 10 in 2016, five in 2015 ...

The U. S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published today that Visa has filed a patent application to create digital currency on a centralized computer using blockchain technology.

How easy would it be to patent a blockchain invention in the face of complex and arcane legal processes? By Ira Schaefer and Ted Mlynar Updated Nov 12, 2024, 7:54 a.m. Published Nov 15, 2016, 12: ...

Blockchain patent applications may be considered pure software patents. Software patents that take an old idea and “apply it on a computer” or “apply it through the Internet” will be ...

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Mastercard has filed multiple blockchain-related patents over the past two years. In October, the company was awarded a patent for a way to “partition a blockchain,” which would make it possible to ...

Blockchain patents could soon become a gold mine for businesses. While the cryptocurrencies and companies developing and marketing blockchain for enterprises have a means to financially benefit, ...

Patents have always been controversial in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space because most projects are established on the premise of decentralization and open source code.

There’'s a patent land grab developing in the blockchain space that could potentially make doing business more challenging for those who want to build upon the open-source technology in the ...

In a tie for second, with 27 blockchain patents each, were payment facilitator MasterCard and IBM (IBM 0.03%). IBM probably comes as no surprise, as it's a tech company that's been on the leading ...