“In the world of crypto and NFTs, everyone has a shot a being a hedge fund billionaire—or at least appears to.” Digital assets on a
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Photographer Says NFTs Transformed her Struggling Business; Now She Wants to Help Other Creators
Brittany Pierre was living in Chicago in 2020, living pay-check-to pay-check as a photographer and ducking the pandemic. She had difficulty paying her rent, groceries
JP Morgan Donates Patents to Low Carbon Pledge; Joins Microsoft, HP and Facebook
The Low Carbon Patent Pledge announced last week that JPMorgan Chase is helping combat climate change by making key patents freely available to anyone using
Large Numbers of Blockchain Shopping and Payment Patents are Waiting to Issue
More global blockchain patents have been published and are preparing to issue in transactions and e-commerce than have been issued over the past several years.
Can Teaming IBM’s blockchain with Spangenberg’s IPwe Turn Patents Into a Trillion-Dollar Market?
IBM and IPwe, believe that NFTs, Non-Fungible Tokens – one-of-a-kind limited digital editions – can transform stagnant patent monetization into a trillion dollar market. Two IP icons
Can blockchain be a game-changer for millions of IP transactions?
The abundant promise of blockchain has yet to be realized. To many in IP, finance and tech, it is just beginning to come into sight.
Patents for Financial Services Summit to examine IP system health
The 15th Annual Patents for Financial Services Summit will gather patent and IP counsel, as well as senior financial executives, to discuss recent trends in
59% of blockchain patents are owned by developers; BofA and IBM dominate financial and tech players
More than half of U.S. blockchain patents are owned by blockchain-specific developers, while 20% are owned by financial institutions, led by Bank of America (see pie
China says it leads the U.S. in blockchain patents and investment
While China is no fan of bitcoin mining – it has moved to close mining operations – it is actively pursuing block chain patents, and
Bank of America is granted (another) blockchain-type patent
Bank of America was granted last week a patent on a “cryptocurrency transformation system” that comprises a platform to manage exchange rates between various currencies, transfer requests,
Update: 62 weird but strangely useful facts about bitcoin
$100 invested in bitcoin in July 2010 is worth about $6M today. For many, it is still unclear if blockchain is a viable alternative currency, an
Bitcoin prices dive: 58 bitcoin facts that will amuse and enlighten
It has been a decade since the appearance of bitcoin, the alternative or cryptocurrency based on a blockchain, a “decentralized” network or shared ledger that
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