Managing Rights Management

Worldpay and AmEx Smart Contract and NFT Patent Applications

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Worldpay, the first application discloses techniques for hyperledger-based payment transactions, alerts, and dispute settlement, using smart contracts. Assigned to AmEx, the second application discloses techniques for non-fungible token authentication. 20230035321, “Systems... Read more →

Amazon and TBS Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Amazon, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for hardening quantum computing security. Assigned to Turner Broadcasting System, the second patent addresses techniques for providing media content to content consumers for... Read more →

Block, Madisetti, and BofA Blockchain and Smart Contract Patent Applications

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications.Today we note three patent applications. Assigned to Block, Inc. (formerly Square), the first application discloses techniques for non-fungible tokens for media item samples. Assigned to Vijay Madisetti, the second application discloses techniques for... Read more →

Wells Fargo and Quantum Digital Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Wells Fargo, the first of today's patents address techniques for smart contracts including arbitration attributes. Assigned to Quantum Digital Solutions Corporation, the second patent addresses techniques for establishing a digital ecosystem... Read more →

Arqit Quantum-safe and Fortior Blockchain Smart Contract Patent Applications

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. We usually quote the Abstract but here we thought an excerpt from the specification was more descriptive of the first application assigned to Aquit (GB) that discloses techniques for quantum-safe networking. Assigned to... Read more →

Mastercard and Madisetti Smart Contract Patents

Smart contracts, (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Mastercard, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for auditing smart contracts. Assigned to Vijay Madisetti, the second patent addresses techniques for filtering transactions using smart contracts and updating filtering smart... Read more →

Tencent and Rivtower Blockchain and Smart Contact Patent Applications

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Tencent (CN), the application discloses techniques for smart contract-based data processing. Assigned to Hangzhou Rivtower Technology (CN), the second application discloses techniques for system configuration independent of smart contract for blockchain.... Read more →

CCAD, Accenture, and Madisetti Blockchain and Smart Contract Patents

Smart contracts, (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Today is a three-fur. Assigned to CCAD, the first patent addresses techniques for distributed ledger-based digital content tracing. Assigned to Accenture, the second patent addresses techniques for asset transfers among blockchains of differing... Read more →

Joint Statement on Crypto-Asset Risks to Banking Organizations

(Thanks to Dave Farber's IP List) On January 3, 2023, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, FDIC, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a three page Joint Statement on Crypto-Asset Risks to Banking Systems. Read more →

USPTO Online Roundtable: Patents and non-fungible tokens-Jan 26

web.cvent.com Roundtable: Patents and non-fungible tokens 1–2 minutes This program is the first in a series of three virtual roundtables looking at intellectual property (IP) law and policy issues associated with non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It will focus on patents and NFTs, providing panelists—including technologists, patent owners and practitioners, academics, and... Read more →