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The Design Law Treaty and the Struggle for International Harmonization of Industrial Design Protection

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About the Design Law Treaty: At its core, the DLT aims to simplify and harmonize the procedural requirements for obtaining registered industrial design rights across national and regional intellectual property (IP) offices. In the US, these are design patent rights.

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What is Blockchain Technology and has it been Patented?

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However, are the blockchain technologies really patentable? In the case of Alice Corp v CLS Bank International, the US Supreme Court in 2014 held that claims to a computer-associated technique of mitigating “settlement risk” in various financial transactions were barred from patenting.

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What is Blockchain Technology and has it been Patented?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

However, are the blockchain technologies really patentable? In the case of Alice Corp v CLS Bank International, the US Supreme Court in 2014 held that claims to a computer-associated technique of mitigating “settlement risk” in various financial transactions were barred from patenting.

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What is Blockchain Technology and has it been Patented?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

However, are the blockchain technologies really patentable? In the case of Alice Corp v CLS Bank International, the US Supreme Court in 2014 held that claims to a computer-associated technique of mitigating “settlement risk” in various financial transactions were barred from patenting.