英語 での Blockchain patents の使用例とその 日本語 への翻訳
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Why do institutions need blockchain patents?
The number of IBM blockchain patents has grown by more than 300 percent in just 12 months.
Alibaba applies for 10% of the world's blockchain patents.
The number of blockchain patents that IBM owns has surged by as much as 300% in a little less than a year.
In just 1 year the number of IBM blockchain patents has grown by 300%.
IBM and Alibaba are the companies leading the race in blockchain technology andhave filed a maximum number of blockchain patents worldwide.
The figures show the number of blockchain patents published for 2017 and in total.
These 3 Chinese companies hold more than half the world's blockchain patents!
Of the top nine companies that filed blockchain patents from 2012 to 2017, six of them were Chinese.
The document also revealed thatChina is the world's leader in terms of blockchain patents filed.
That brings us to the fourth point raised by this data: blockchain patents are monopolized by banks and technology companies.
Like all other patents, blockchain patents are exclusive rights which are issued by an official authority like an intergovernmental organization or a sovereign state.
The company claims tohave registered at least 274 blockchain patents in China.
Financial institutions own one in five blockchain patents, yet IBM anticipated just 15% of them using the technology in 2017.
However, Alibaba currently holds a monopoly on blockchain patents in China.
Bank of America's portfolio of blockchain patents appears to be a bet on the eventual mass adoption of blockchain. .
As previously reported by CoinDesk,universities in China are pursuing blockchain patents because 2015.
As per Bloomberg, business-wise blockchain patents“are an essential ingredient for companies looking to reshape the financial services industry or spawn profitable cryptocurrency-related businesses.”.
Bank of America has filed more than 50 blockchain patents since June.
As Bloomberg explains, business-wise blockchain patents“are an essential ingredient for companies looking to reshape the financial services industry or spawn profitable cryptocurrency-related businesses.”.
It shows that China has filed the most blockchain patents in the world.
Per the reports, 406 blockchain patents were issued in 2017 and 43 of them had been filed by Alibaba, with other Chinese tech giants such as online search engine Baidu and internet conglomerate Tencent Holdings following closely.
The website Blockchain Library- which was last updated in November 2017-lists eleven blockchain patents submitted by Mastercard to WIPO in 2017.
According to a November report from Chinese blockchain analytics firm Block Data on Chinese blockchain patents, Alibaba is one of the top three companies in developing blockchain patents, along with China Telecom and OneConnect, a subsidiary of one of China's largest insurers, Ping An Insurance.
In August 2018, Michael Wuehler, a blockchain specialist at ConsenSys, who previously worked at BofA for more than 11 years, as per his LinkedIn profile, took to Twitter to announce that while his nameis listed on“8 of 50” BofA blockchain patents as an inventor, they are“meaningless” from his perspective.
Nevertheless, the outcome of a blockchain patent filing is often unclear.
Later in the same year,the auto company also filed for a Blockchain patent to process data for autonomous vehicles.
According to CoinDesk,Bank of America has won 36 blockchain patent applications, and 31 are pending.
The Office also requires the blockchain patent applicants to file documents first in Singapore with less than 20 claims in one application in order to be eligible for the fast-track initiative, among other criteria.