Managing Rights Management

GE and Alibaba Blockchain and Rights Management Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to GE, the first application discloses techniques for the prevention of black-listed parts from being 3D-printed. Assigned to Alibaba, the... Read more →

Farmobile and GE Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are published by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents continue the theme of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Farmobile, the first patent addresses techniques for distributed transaction-based security and tracking of agricultural machine and agronomic data. Assigned to General... Read more →

BofA and Strong Force IOT Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to BofA, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for tracking transfer of resources in a process data network. Assigned to... Read more →

OSRAM and IDLogic Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to OSRAM (DE) the first application discloses including blockchains for controlled agricultural systems and methods of managing agricultural systems. Assigned to IDLogic,... Read more →

Bridgit and inVia Robotics Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued on Tuesdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Patents continue the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Bridgit S.P.C., the first patent addresses techniques for creating and retrieving contextual links between user interface objects. Assigned to inVia Robotics,... Read more →

Disney Watermarking and Boeing Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Disney, the first patent addresses techniques for descriptive metadata extraction and linkage with editorial content. Assigned to Boeing, the second patent addresses techniques for generating a fingerprint... Read more →

Western Digital and Rockwell Automation DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Western Digital, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for a personal multimedia content archive. Assigned to Rockwell Automation, the second patent addresses an architecture for application of... Read more →

Colson Reseach and Amazon Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchain (block chain, distributed ledger) and digital rights management broadly construed. Apparently assigned to Colson Research, the first application discloses techniques for distributed manufacturing. Assigned to Amazon, the second application discloses techniques for... Read more →

Intel and Elixsys Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

We continue the theme of blockchain (block chain, distributed ledger) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Intel, the first Spotlight Application discloses techniques for blockchain-based shadow images to facilitate copyright protection of digital content. Assigned to Elixsys, the second application discloses techniques for using smart contracts to control... Read more →

Digimarc and Wistaria Trading Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Digimarc, the first patent addresses assembly of multi-part food packaging is checked by reference to payloads of steganographically-encoded digital watermarks printed across plural components of the packaging. Assigned to... Read more →

Moog and Electric Motor Werks Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. We continue with the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Moog, Inc., the first of today's Spotlight Applications discloses techniques for the verification and authentication of additive manufactured product. Assigned to Electric... Read more →

Boeing and Amazon Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are published by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Boeing, the first patent addresses techniques for generating a fingerprint for verification of a reference object and is one of the few applications of digital fingerprinting I've seen in... Read more →

Authentect Fingerprinting and BJUT Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Authentect, the first patent address techniques for authentication of an object, verification of its provenance, and certification of the object as compliant with manufacturing standards. assigned to the... Read more →

General Electric Fingerprinting and Verance Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to GE, the first application discloses techniques to characterize noises sensed by a knock sensor. Assigned to Verance, the second application discloses techniques for service signaling recovery... Read more →

eBay and Sony DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to eBay, the first application discloses techniques for digital rights and integrity management in three-dimensional (3d) printing. Assigned to Sony, the second application discloses techniques for digital... Read more →

Intellectual Discovery and Schneider Electric Industries DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intellectual Discovery (KR), the first applications discloses methods for providing a license corresponding to encrypted contents to client apparatus and digital rights management conversion system using the methods.... Read more →