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Blockchain patents : current situation and outlook
Blockchain, a technology often associated with the libertarian movement, appears in principle to be in opposition to patent monopolization [1]. Today, this initially airtight opposition between the freedom of blockchain protocols and their registration by this type of industrial property right is no longer set in stone. The technologies implemented by blockchain—a distributed registry in a peer-to-peer network, consensus algorithms for validating new entries into this registry, cryptographic processes to secure transactions exchanges [2]—interests more and more certain patent applicants.