A right to claim priority from an as-filed application is not just restricted to an applicant of the Priority application, but may be also availed by ‘another/different’ applicant for the purposes of filing a later application claiming priority from the priority application. Not only such other ‘applicant’ of the later-application may be different from the original priority-setting application, the later-filed application may be either equivalent to the priority application or a ‘variant’ (e.g. improvement […]

With the growing universe of blockchain based systems and applications, legal questions associated with this technology emerge and require consideration (ideally) before substantial sums are invested. In this blog series related to blockchain, we have covered a number of legal aspects (such as Starting an Initial Token Offering (ITO, also called Initial Coin Offering or ICO) – Things to consider and Blockchain for Patents – Patents for Blockchain) already.

This blogpost is about copyright in the blockchain environment.

Traditionally, […]