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 →

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 →

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 →

Akiva Capital and Tencent Smart Contact Patent Applications

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Akiva Capital Holdings, the first application discloses techniques for tokenized control of smart contracts. Assigned to Tencent (CN), the second application discloses techniques for publishing smart contracts. 20230005056, “Systems and methods... Read more →

Coinbase, Alipay and Strong Force Smart Contract Patents

Smart contracts, (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Coinbase, the first of today's three spotlight patents address techniques for automatic smart contract feature analysis and risk assessment based on unique source code signatures and/or fingerprints within the smart contract.... Read more →

Micro Focus and Visa Smart Contract and Blockchain Patent Applications

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Micro Focus, the first application discloses techniques for blockchain malware protection. Assigned to Visa, the second application discloses techniques for creating multiple records based on an ordered smart contract. 20220417272, “Blockchain... Read more →

Wells Fargo and Strong Force Smart Contract 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 Spotlight Patents addresses techniques for metadata management through blockchain technology. Assigned to Strong Force, the second patent addresses transaction-enabled systems and methods for smart contracts.... Read more →

BofA Quantum and Smart Contract Patent Applications

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of quantum computing and smart contracts in the context of blockchains and both are assigned to BofA. The first application discloses techniques for secure verification of... Read more →

CapOne and Fidelity Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to CapOne, the first patent concerns techniques for digital data lineage verification. Assigned to FMR (Fidelity), the second patent concerns techniques for reading, storing, and correcting historical records in distributed ledgers. 11523153,... Read more →