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McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Trump, Crypto and a New Era for IP Protection

The cryptocurrency industry is undergoing a transformative period as the Trump administration adopts a more structured and proactive regulatory approach to digital assets such as Bitcoin. This evolving legal framework not...more

Mayer Brown

January 2025 - LATAM Intellectual Property & Data Protection Newsletter

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Read the first 2025 edition of the Intellectual Property & Data Protection Newsletter, a publication from Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown. In this newsletter, Counsel Cristiane Manzueto and associate...more

Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Braumiller Law Group & Braumiller Consulting Group February 2024 newsletter

Last June (2023), in response to a ruling request from Your Special Delivery Services Specialty Logistics (YSDS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued HQ H324098, clarifying what it means to be an “owner or purchaser”...more

Porter Hedges LLP

NFTs: The Future of Managing Patent Assets?

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What do William Shatner, Snoop Dogg, Mark Cuban, Tom Brady, and patent owners have in common? They are all now minting non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”), turning assets into a token that is represented on the blockchain. ...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights, Volume 2, Issue 15

Bye-Bye, Bitcoin: It's Time to Ban Cryptocurrencies - "International banking officials say cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin are speculative assets, not sustainable, usable money." Why this is important: This opinion piece...more

Fish & Richardson

Blockchain and Cryptocurrency: What is Blockchain Technology?

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Blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies are rapidly expanding throughout the world – and with that rapid expansion has come a growing interest in IP protection for blockchain and cryptocurrency inventions. USPTO statistics...more

BakerHostetler

New Crypto Payment Services Launch; Blockchain Pilots Announced for Agriculture, Textile, Seafood Supply Chains; DeFi Project...

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New Crypto Payment Services Launch, Bitcoin ATM Firm Asserts Patent Rights - Late last week, BitPay, a major cryptocurrency payment provider, announced the introduction of BitPay Send, a new mass payout service that enables...more

Fish & Richardson

As Blockchain Goes Mainstream, Patent Applicants Face Familiar Hurdles

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Over the past several years, blockchain and the technologies based on it – most notably cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum – have dominated much of the discourse in the banking and financial services industries. ...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Intellectual Property Bulletin - Spring 2018

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Bitcoin is often portrayed as an untraceable method of payment that facilitates illicit activities by enabling criminals to make and receive payments without being tracked. This depiction implies that users transacting in...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Drafting Effective Blockchain Patents

As the number of blockchain-based patents and patent applications increases, more companies have become interested in pursuing these patents. Other companies still think that blockchain-based inventions are not patentable....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Patent Strategies for Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology

Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology are rapidly emerging as disruptive technologies. As has happened with many new technologies, particularly disruptive ones, a patent arms race is occurring. The number of patents...more

Goodwin

Risk of ”Standard-Essential” Patent Litigation to Bitcoin

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It’s tempting to think that Bitcoin services would be immune to patent litigation. After all, Bitcoin protocol is open source and seems to be in the public domain. Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous designer of...more

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