Industrial and Intellectual Property, Patenting Blockchain, EPO, European Patent Office

Hague 4 December 2018

Blockchain technology is applied to an ever increasing variety of technical fields.

Many of the successful inventions are patentable.

How does a patent application appear in this area and should other forms of IP protection also be considered?

What implications will blockchain patents on society in the future?

These are just some of the topics that the European Patent Office has dealt with in the one-day conference “Patenting blockchain”, which brought together the stakeholders: companies, academics, judiciary, policymaking and patent offices for a series of conferences and tables round.

Source European Patent Office