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Topic: A patent for creating and storing information on a blockchain? (Read 344 times)

legendary
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Monero Core Team
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The patent describes a method for creating and storing a digital ID on a blockchain and providing the owner of the ID a way to grant permissioned access to historical data from a point in time.
Are other projects doing similar things?
What are the implications for these other projects if this patent is established?

http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20161115/pdf/43cx5wsd6dx6fj.pdf



This sounds a lot like the view key in Monero / Cryptonote. It is a provisional application likely in the United States so a prior art declaration has not been made. Does anyone have the actual application number, and where this patent was applied for?
sr. member
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https://www.nem.io/ApostilleWhitePaper.pdf

Previous works are generally not affected by patents

Patents are invalid if there was published prior art.

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The patent describes a method for creating and storing a digital ID on a blockchain and providing the owner of the ID a way to grant permissioned access to historical data from a point in time.
Are other projects doing similar things?

I am confident we will find ample projects which have been working on that sort of feature and have been open source.

Open source is going to make patenting pretty much impractical.
legendary
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Thank God I'm an atheist
https://www.nem.io/ApostilleWhitePaper.pdf

Previous works are generally not affected by patents
legendary
Activity: 1190
Merit: 1000
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The patent describes a method for creating and storing a digital ID on a blockchain and providing the owner of the ID a way to grant permissioned access to historical data from a point in time.
Are other projects doing similar things?
What are the implications for these other projects if this patent is established?

http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20161115/pdf/43cx5wsd6dx6fj.pdf

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