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Patent Eligibility: Distinguishing Collecting Information from Using Information

Patently-O

Weisner’s four patents are all part of the same family and all relate to ways of recording a person’s physical location history in ways that correspond to certain transactions. Dude’s phone is configured to record the transaction along with the location history and push it to the cloud. In the image (Fig.3

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Blockchain and Cryptocurrency: What is Blockchain Technology?

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

A blockchain is a type of large database called a distributed ledger system wherein collections of data (such as transaction records) are stored in “blocks” that are chained together using cryptography such that they cannot be changed later. Each block of a blockchain contains a header and one or more transaction records.

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Cloned-and-Revised Legal Documents Aren’t Copyrightable–UIRC v. William Blair

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This case revisits the venerable topic of if, and when, cloning-and-revising a legal document can be copyright infringement. This opinion doesn’t address the situation when an entire legal document is copied verbatim, such as when the filings are indexed in electronic databases like Westlaw or Lexis.

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What is Blockchain Technology and has it been Patented?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

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. The ledger consists of unalterable digitally recorded information in packages called blocks.

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What is Blockchain Technology and has it been Patented?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

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. The ledger consists of unalterable digitally recorded information in packages called blocks.

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What is Blockchain Technology and has it been Patented?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

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. The ledger consists of unalterable digitally recorded information in packages called blocks.

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Global Digital Encounter 21: The Metaverse as a Challenge to Classical IP

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The first topic up for discussion by the panel was the actual definition of the metaverse. The next topic in the discussion was user protection in the metaverse. The topic is, indeed, so wide that an hour-long discussion, although very fruitful, can barely even scratch its surface. Panel discussion. Questions from the audience.