- Ethereum Name Service filed a petition with the USPTO challenging Unstoppable Domains’ patent regarding blockchain naming services.
- Unstoppable Domains is accused by ENS of using its open-sourced technology in the patent.
- Per the founder of Unstoppable Domains, the patent is deemed to be legitimate.
Ethereum Name Service filed a petition with the USPTO over a trademark that Unstoppable Domains had acquired.
“In 2023 Unstoppable Domains (UD) obtained a patent for technology ENS Labs developed as open-source,” ENS +4.31% stated on the social media site X. We filed a petition with the USPTO today to contest the legitimacy of that patent and guarantee that the internet stays a collaborative environment.”
Similar to ENS, UD manages wallet and domain name services. “ENS’s pioneering technology, directly leveraging our open-source innovations” was allegedly patented by UD, according to ENS, and the patent even mentioned ENS’s contributions.
We offered UD every chance to sidestep this conflict: UD declined to make any firm promises not to utilize the patent against the interests of the community or to make the patent open source, and ENS persisted on social media. For the sake of Web3’s future, we are totally committed to fighting a battle that we did not choose.
The Ethereum Name Service is a provider of the ERC-20 utility token, ENS. The patent was examined by the examiner with those citations in place, the patent is valid, and filing patents is very common in both web3 and the domain industry, stated Unstoppable Domains founder Matthew Gould on X. ENS prior art was cited on the first page of the patent along with multiple other works for blockchain domain systems.
In order to defend the web3 domain industry and ourselves, we will keep filing patents. We now have a number of other patents pending or in progress. Many companies have filed patents, including Verisign, Coinbase, and 3DNS, which is used by.box. It is a customary action. Gould continued, “We view this issue as resolved and have already offered a non-assertion pledge as previously stated multiple times, over a year ago.” The patent is presumed to be legitimate.
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