Patents


Finance

Alibaba Patents Blockchain System That Spots Music Copycats

The e-commerce giant has patented a blockchain-based means of vetting the originality of songs.

Joseph Tsai, executive vice chairman (Credit: Cody Glenn / Flickr)

Markets

Blockstack Pledges to Enforce Patents for 'Defensive Purposes' Only

Blockstack, the startup building a decentralized backbone for Web 3.0, is open-sourcing its two patents – kinda.

Blockstack co-founder Muneeb Ali speaks at Consensus 2017. (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Blockstack Wins Patent for Its Dapp Single Sign-On Product

The U.S. patent office has granted Blockstack intellectual property rights around its single sign-on service for dapps.

“We don’t want to be in a position where some other (large) company files a patent similar to the work PBC and the community is doing,” Blockstack CEO Muneeb Ali said (Image via Brady Dale/CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Microsoft Files Patent Application for Crypto Mining System Powered by Human Activity

A Microsoft patent application details a human-powered crypto mining project by collecting data as people exercise and watch ads.

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Tech

Winklevoss Patents Tout Use Case for Gemini Stablecoin Tech in Banking

Banks and other "trusted entities" could become licensed issuers of the stablecoin, the patents suggest.

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Gemini founders (Shutterstock)

Tech

IBM Awarded Patent for 'Self-Aware Token'

The firm says the concept of tokens that record their own data could make it easier for regulators to understand who is using them.

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Tech

Jack Dorsey's Square Wins Patent for Fiat-to-Crypto Payments Network

Square's newly awarded patent enables seamless transactions between a number of potential asset types including crypto.

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Finance

Dish Network Files Patent for Blockchain-Based Anti-Piracy System

The satellite TV firm's newly published patent application details a means to combat online piracy using blockchain.

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Finance

Blockchain Vendor R3 Scores Its Second Patent in a Week

Enterprise software vendor R3 has won a patent for a blockchain-based record system designed to make corporate information-sharing more efficient.

R3's Mike Hearn, image from CoinDesk archives

Tech

Alibaba Patents Would Secure, Accelerate Its Consortium Blockchain

Chinese internet giant Alibaba Group has won two U.S. patents designed to make its blockchain network safer and faster.

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