Alibaba Has Filed for over 10% of the World’s Blockchain Patents: Research

[HappyWhiteHuman]

Alibaba Has Filed for over 10% of the World’s Blockchain Patents: Research
China’s ongoing drive to dominate the emerging global blockchain technology sector has been underlined by news that Alibaba Group Holding alone filed more than 10 percent of all blockchain patents worldwide in 2017.

Intellectual Property Rights Arms Race
Research by Thomson Reuters shows that 56 percent of all 406 blockchain patents issued around the world in 2017 came from China, with the United States a distant second with 22 percent. Combined with the rapid rise in blockchain patent filings from 134 in 2016 to 406 in 2017, the data tells a story of an ongoing intellectual property rights race that China is currently winning convincingly.

The Nikkei Asian Review reports that of the 406 blockchain patents issued in 2017, Alibaba alone filed 43, with other Chinese tech giants like Tencent and Baidu also dominating the list of blockchain patent owners.

The US still leads China in terms of overall number of blockchain patents filed, but China is fast closing the gap, and on an annual level China is actually in the lead.
https://www.ccn.com/alibaba-has-filed-for-over-10-of-the-worlds-blockchain-patents-research/

[KingScorpio]

Alibaba Has Filed for over 10% of the World’s Blockchain Patents: Research
China’s ongoing drive to dominate the emerging global blockchain technology sector has been underlined by news that Alibaba Group Holding alone filed more than 10 percent of all blockchain patents worldwide in 2017.

Intellectual Property Rights Arms Race
Research by Thomson Reuters shows that 56 percent of all 406 blockchain patents issued around the world in 2017 came from China, with the United States a distant second with 22 percent. Combined with the rapid rise in blockchain patent filings from 134 in 2016 to 406 in 2017, the data tells a story of an ongoing intellectual property rights race that China is currently winning convincingly.

The Nikkei Asian Review reports that of the 406 blockchain patents issued in 2017, Alibaba alone filed 43, with other Chinese tech giants like Tencent and Baidu also dominating the list of blockchain patent owners.

The US still leads China in terms of overall number of blockchain patents filed, but China is fast closing the gap, and on an annual level China is actually in the lead.
https://www.ccn.com/alibaba-has-filed-for-over-10-of-the-worlds-blockchain-patents-research/

patenting in blockchain is jsut scam its not decades or centuries long high cost research like in aviation engineering, its just some thinking and writing down.

they shouldn't claim to do patens

[criticoflife]

Just greedy corporations trying to patent all the good ideas they see on the blockchain that they didn't come up with themselves, nothing new about that. They would have a hell of a job trying to enforce there patents on the blockchain anyhow so it has little meaning at this stage. Alibaba's Jack Wu should stick to cocktail parties at Justin Sun's house and stop trying to lay claim over half the blockchain.

[tk808]

Don't be misled, this is filed, doesn't mean they are granted.

Blockchain is opensource, it's in the public domain. There's nothing that can be filed pertaining to blockchain tech, other than area's and niche's that haven't already been created. These patents will have a difficult time actually getting approved and being enforced, as you guys pointed out. 

Article offers some good insight in what businesses are trying to do in terms of intellectual property, but, still click-bait shit.

[learningcrypto5421]

As I know it’s a scam because Alibaba is just agree to deal with crypto. Alibaba really appreciate this blockchain technology. Soon it will bring positive news for crypto. Try to analysis more about this issue.

[scribble2]

This all are just the greedy methods og worlds biggest company. They do it for their greater profit.Whatever, they just have filled for 10% patents, yet they not been granted. And it is not possible, because, Blockchain open source, cannot be a private company. we just have to wait too see its last.

[face foul]

That would be a case of a system that has a focal element/organization that can be rebuffed, particularly on the grounds that they are putting forth a physical item.

[Tipstar]

No wonder Chinese are still for more than 50% what happens with the cryptocurrencies. They have more than 50% Bitcoin hashes, similar Ethereum hashes, almost all of Bitcoincash  hashes. Though the government has banned banking transactions for crypto, still crypto is widely used and accepted in China, more than anywhere in the world.

[IgorShumilo]

Guys, I think you're seriously mistaken! approval of the use of blockchain technology does not mean approval of trade in crypto-currencies. China and the United States filed most of all applications for patents in the field of blockchain and this is very cool, but this will not lead to a "flight to the moon" bitcoin. It is necessary that bitcoin be made a means of making payments and hundreds of millions of people began to use it as payment.

[covfefe_]

Many companies are on the races for acquiring patents related to crypto to tap the money into the sector for themselves. But it not only makes crypto technology costlier for general public, but it's also against the essence of crypto. Crypto is meant to be open source and decentralised.

[vicvicto17]

Big companies are working onto the blockchain, some came up just to use the blockchain, Well they can't handle that in the long run they should partnered to a cryptocurrency,basically with those platform that are high in security features, Fast transactions and reliable blockchain source.

[Script3d]

Big companies are working onto the blockchain, some came up just to use the blockchain, Well they can't handle that in the long run they should partnered to a cryptocurrency,basically with those platform that are high in security features, Fast transactions and reliable blockchain source.

with the number of their employees i believe they would be to do it even valve only has 360 employees which is really small for a big platform and not all of them works on the same field they divided the number of employees to other games like dota 2, csgo, tf2.

[doraemon_33766]

That is the immense things about decentralized permission less systems, guidelines must be upheld by organize clients. In the event that they needed to authorize a patent on a system like Bitcoin, they will need to rebuff a ton of clients running hubs the whole way across the world.

[Woundur]

It is an issue in different enterprises, however in a really decentralized system there is certainly not a solitary element they can really rebuff. They could attempt and rebuff the dev who distributed the licensed code.

[Lignxxx]

Honestly, this seems like a way to discourage those who wants to come up with a better and unique ideas in the ICO. Plus Alibaba going something like this makes it seem like it is done out of corporate greed and power.

[antonwantbitcoin]

Thank you. This became a popular method of mosques. Many people lost coins of coins

[minairia3]

Don't be misled, this is filed, doesn't mean they are granted.

Blockchain is opensource, it's in the public domain. There's nothing that can be filed pertaining to blockchain tech, other than area's and niche's that haven't already been created. These patents will have a difficult time actually getting approved and being enforced, as you guys pointed out. 

Article offers some good insight in what businesses are trying to do in terms of intellectual property, but, still click-bait shit.

Yes this one is true. In this time of fake news and hoax you might wanna rethink and do some research first before keeping your hopes high. Even mainstream media have their own scams and fraudulent schemes to manipulate people.

[RottenSteel]

I think it is pretty normal because jack ma is a clever guy and now he is seeing that he can gain money by investing on blockchain technology because he knows that blockchain is the future indeed. But, at the same time it is also bad in a sense that a major portion of patents should not belong to one company.

[rsrb]

BLockchain is a public domain property. Article says that 56% percent of all 406 blockchains are issued by China. In my mind, i am asking myself, what purpose do you have behind issueing that much of patents?