Malilkie Innovations, the company that manages patent licences, has formalised complaints against Core Scientific and Mara Holdings. According to the patent risk management company, the reason for the complaints is that these miners use elliptic curve encryption (ECC), a way of regulating the generation of public keys and digital signatures in the Bitcoin protocol.
The cases presented to Core Scientific and Mara Holdings constitute a new campaign by Maliki Innovations, which has already carried out lawsuits under the BlackBerry patent against Apollo Global Management and NRG Energy. ASIC,computers,nodes,mining platforms,software,wallets)” According to the news.
Mariki Innovation, a ghost company that has purchased thousands of Blackberry patents, is requesting Bitcoin mining company (@maraholdings @core_scientific). They assert the use of ECDSA and the mathematics of the elliptic curves by the patents of Bitcoin Viola of its property. These patents are broad and vague and are based on ideas that were already in the public domain before 2005.
Dan Sánchez, creator of the campaign against Malailkie Innovations.
Violation of US patent law
Judicial documents refer to “patent violations” in accordance with “US Patent Act, 35 USC §1et seq” and refer to:
This case focuses on the pioneering innovation in elliptic curve encryption discovered by some of the leading engineers in the field at Certicom Corporation and BlackBerry Limited (formerly known as Motion in Motion or “RIM”).
Mariki’s innovation, demand.
According to Bitconner, who is well versed in lawsuits, it promotes a campaign called “.Protect Bitcoin and kill trolls” (protect Bitcoin and kill trolls), the plaintiff claims the following US patents It belongs only to them and was violated by Core Scientific and Mara Holdings, Two of the world’s largest mining companies.
- Patent number 8,788,827
- Patent number 10,284,370
- Patent number 8,666,062
- Patent number 7,372,960
- Patent number 7,372,961
- Patent number 8,532,286
These patents would have been developed by certificates. According to the company, it was acquired by the smart phone company BlackBerry and by Malikie Innovations. It covers ECC innovations such as “accelerated digital signature verification, finite field calculation, and module reduction technology.”
In a nutshell, commenting on the campaign drivers, Marikey believes these miners are using patents belonging to them When they perform mining operations, operations that depend on the algorithm of the elliptic curve.
Malikie Innovations alleges financial damages for past and present violations, and requires the court to prohibit defendants from continuing patented technology without approval. In other words, they want both cases to be in the permitted use of “their technology.” This is a dangerous precedent for Bitcoin companies, whether they exist or not.
Dansanchez, creator of the Defense Bitcoin campaign, kills the troll.
Right now, Bitcoin has an intellectual owner…
The plaintiff goes further and declares Bitcoin in an asymmetrically encrypted digitally signed way known as ECDSA. Uses technology developed and patented by Certicom and BlackBerry. Specifically, the technology created by Dan Brown was one of the authors of a paper called Sec 2 and was responsible for being the Certicom Research section.
In short, this request for mining companies to use Elliptical Curves Cryptography raises questions about the idea that all Bitcoin technological infrastructure is free software, originating from open source transmissions, complicating the historical origins of the protocol.
It should be clarified that demand is an attempt to defend cryptographic patents against BTC mining companies. Demand is not for Bitcoin, a protocolyou know, if they have any effect, they will only affect the economy of the crypto industry, not their technological infrastructure. However, there is no guarantee that these will require fruit. Some sources imply that the idea that allowed Bitcoin was already in the public domain when it was created, or that some patents for Mariki Innovation were enabled before it was used in currency protocols.
The legal background is that Craig Wright claimed to be the inventor of Bitcoin and, as reported by Cryptootics, attempted to build a portfolio of asset patents in the currencies and technologies that support it. Wright tried to suicidal Bitcoin core developers and companies like Square, in addition to claiming Bitcoin’s intellectual property rights, in the process that later failed completely, as in Nakamoto at.
“Protect Bitcoin and kill trolls”
To defend Bitcoin from this “Patent Troll,” Sanchez proposes that the community will help identify academic articles, technical specification documents, and open source databases published prior to January 18, 2005. This is to demonstrate the obstacles “based on the state of technology” of plaintiff’s argument in the lawsuit.
A developer named Pandalife has created a historical timeline of the Digital Elliptic Curve (ECDSA) digital algorithms used by Bitcoin. This comment is as follows:
In the early 2000s: ECDSA implementations appear in open source projects (for example, OpenSSL, Bounce Castle).
Panda Life, Crypto developer.
Next, he concludes it “The basic algorithms behind mathematics and ECDSA were general knowledge at least in 1992.”and they lie that it was “standardized in public specifications long before 2005,” dismantles the plaintiff’s declaration that the ECC used by Bitcoin exists only thanks to certificates and Blackberry’s efforts.
Malikie’s demand for innovation on Core Scientific and Mara Holdings underscores the growing tension between Bitcoin’s open source spirit and the application of intellectual property rights. spirit Although De Bicoin is said to have been celebrated by Hal Finey, the historic developer of the protocol, years ago, on the expiration of the patent.
If Malikie’s claims are successful, there is a precedent in the history of Bitcoin, a protocol that has always been freely shared under the MIT license. In some cases, the developer, miner, user, or validator must pay a license to use the patent; It fundamentally changes the economic situation of Bitcoin.
This line and a pessimistic tone from Dan Sanchez. Mala Holdings, assuming that, by his standards, has reached an economic agreement with Malilky Innovation, Bitcoin defenders are unable to regain legal initiatives.
“When they reach an agreement with Mara, everything ends for most Bitcoin companies. They have to pay royalties six years ago and pay permanence. Prices need to rise for everything, and we contaminate ourselves with the same blood seeking fiduciary income, such as the corporate world,” Sanchez said.
