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Topic: [2016-06-21] BS: Australian 'Bitcoin founder' quietly bidding for patent empire (Read 873 times)

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Australian 'Bitcoin founder' quietly bidding for patent empire

http://www.business-standard.com/article/international/australian-bitcoin-founder-quietly-bidding-for-patent-empire-116062100030_1.html

Craig Wright, the Australian who claimed to be the inventor of bitcoin, is attempting to build a large patent portfolio around the digital currency and technology underpinning it, according to associates of his and documents reviewed by Reuters.

Since February, Wright has filed more than 50 patent applications in Britain through Antigua-registered EITC Holdings Ltd, which a source close to the company confirmed was connected to Wright, government records show.

Interviews with sources close to EITC Holdings Ltd, which has two of Wright's associates as directors, confirmed it was still working on filing patent applications and Britain's Intellectual Property Office has published another 11 patent applications filed by the company in the past week.
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