Who has the intellectual property rights or trade mark for ASIC technology?
Can any company
design and
develop and
manufacture their own ASIC technology to mine Crypto currencies or are there any kind of intellectual property right protection on the technology?
Let's say the US vs China trade wars increase and some Chinese company have the intellectual property rights on the ASIC technology, would that stop say Silicon Valley to create their own ASIC chips to feed the US market?
As far as I know there are no intellectual property rights on the technology, but some protection might be patented on the way some companies implemented this?
I cannot seem to find any information about this, if someone could help to enlighten me. Please post the source, if you find anything.