[2016-08-25] The Bitcoin Patent – Only A Matter Of Time?

[elyas772]

The birth of bitcoin came in 2008 in a paper entitled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. The genesis block – the first block of transactions – was created the following year, and the network has continued ever since.

Given that no person (or group) has credibly claimed authorship of the 2008 Nakamoto paper or the bitcoin transaction method it describes, not surprisingly, no patent based on that original work has appeared.

However, that does not stop us from imagining what a patent claim on the bitcoin method might have looked like if a patent application was filed in the US before the Nakamoto article was published.

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-patent-matter-of-time/

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[Das]

We have developers who have already replicated the bitcoin blockchain. There are so many altcoins that are clones of bitcoins, it will run a lot of altcoins out of business if we have a bitcoin patent.

[BellaBitBit]

How can Bitcoin have a patent?  Hasn't this already been attempted and it is null?  I thought that you can have patents that utilize bitcoin but no existence of a patent that claims bitcoin.

[LLec]

btc itself could be patent by anyone just because it's public by nature, it was created with this purpose.

We have developers who have already replicated the bitcoin blockchain. There are so many altcoins that are clones of bitcoins, it will run a lot of altcoins out of business if we have a bitcoin patent.

Yes this is absolutely true but there is any real "trademark" behind btc and probably we'll see another "blockchain" patented and not this one

[XCASH]

btc itself could be patent by anyone just because it's public by nature, it was created with this purpose.

We have developers who have already replicated the bitcoin blockchain. There are so many altcoins that are clones of bitcoins, it will run a lot of altcoins out of business if we have a bitcoin patent.

Yes this is absolutely true but there is any real "trademark" behind btc and probably we'll see another "blockchain" patented and not this one

Nothing that has already been demonstrated in public can be patented, so after the Bitcoin code was published on Sourceforge and Satoshi had started mining the blockchain it was too late for anyone to patent it.

Anyone can file a patent that uses Bitcoin in some new invention, but the patent office might not necessarily accept it.

I searched the US patent office for Bitcoin, and there were 109 results today. If anyone wants to have a look at them put Bitcoin into the search box on this page at the US patent office.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html