{"id":14533,"date":"2018-03-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2019.dash.org\/2018\/03\/22\/dash-additional-detail-new-cfo-patents\/"},"modified":"2021-09-18T11:37:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T11:37:38","slug":"additionalinfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.dash.org\/news\/additionalinfo\/","title":{"rendered":"Dash Additional Detail: New CFO & Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dash Community,<\/p>\n
Dash Core Group posted a few press releases over the last week, and I wanted to set aside some time to provide additional details, beyond what we can pack into the typical PR-oriented content. First, we shared news that provisional patents were filed in the United States on March 6th, covering much of the Evolution innovations. The provisional patent filing enables us to begin sharing details about the design of the systems, such as demos and technical improvement proposals, without risking competing projects from attempting to preempt Dash by claiming patents of their own based on our ideas. Now that this milestone has been achieved, we are anxious to begin sharing what the team has been working on.<\/p>\n Provisional patents are only the first step in the patent process, and they offer us limited protections. The contents of provisional patents are not public record, but will prevent others from attempting to patent our ideas. Longer-term, we will file non-provisional patents, which will be public record. We must file a full patent application within 12 months (by March 6th, 2019). The filing is titled \u201cMethods and Systems For Object Validated Blockchain Accounts\u201d and consists of 61 pages of text and 29 figures illustrating the designs and processes.<\/p>\n With this protection in place, we are moving forward with public release of demos, Dash Improvement Proposals (a.k.a. DIPs), blog posts from the development team, and other information that we\u2019ve been unable to share prior to the filing. Expect to see a VERY busy spring when it comes to communicating the improvements that have been underway for some time. The first demo has already been published here:<\/p>\n You may be wondering why an open-source project may want to patent our innovations in the first place. We are filing these patents as purely defensive. In other words, we want to make sure no other entity can file a patent based on our designs and ideas and subsequently use those patents to prevent merchants and users from using the Dash platform. We also want to prevent our own patents from falling into the hands of patent trolls that might abuse merchants or users of our network. As such, the technology will be freely licensed to the public subject to terms and conditions. The public license will ensure that any entity acquiring these patents in the future will have extremely limited ability to enforce them maliciously with users that comply with the terms and conditions under which they were previously released to the public.<\/p>\n We initiated the patent process and collection of the patent assignments prior to the establishment of The Dash DAO Irrevocable Trust, so we have filed the patents under the name of Dash Core Group, Inc. Once patents are issued, we intend to transfer them to the trust to further protect the network and ensure ownership of the patents is held in perpetuity for the benefit of the Dash network directly.<\/p>\n
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\nProvisional Patent<\/strong><\/p>\n