TuftyTheCat on Nostr: With all the talk about XRP recently, given my experience with nChain I thought I ...

With all the talk about XRP recently, given my experience with nChain I thought I would take a look to see what Ripple Labs were doing in patents. At least as far as patenting activities in Europe goes, it looks like they are not really making much of an effort. Searching for Ripple Labs as applicant provides only 6 results (link below). It turns out that only one of these is pending, the rest having been dropped or refused. The one currently pending is a divisional of one that was previously refused, which doesn't sound very promising. Compared to nChain with their 640 cases and over 140 granted European patents, this is small beer indeed.

https://register.epo.org/advancedSearch?ap=&apl=&fd=&grd=&ic=&in=&op=&pa=ripple%20labs&pd=&pn=&pr=&prd=&re=&recent=%20&searchMode=advanced&ti=&ufd=&urd=