🌋 ENS Continues Battle with Unstoppable Domains
posted 3 May 2024
The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) has filed a petition with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to challenge the validity of a patent held by the competing blockchain domain name project, Unstoppable Domains (UD).
ENS claims that the patent, granted in 2023, covers technology originally developed by ENS Labs as open-source. Unstoppable Domains was accused of misappropriating technology back in November, which we covered on our website.
ENS thrives on decentralization and public benefit, features we believe the UD patent threatens to distort or destroy,ENS stated in a new post on X.
We gave UD every opportunity to avoid this battle: UD refused to open source the patent and refused to make any irrevocable pledges not to use the patent to the detriment of the community. This is a fight we didn't choose but are fully committed to, for the sake of Web3's future,ENS further emphasized.
In response, UD founder Matthew Gould stated that the patent had been thoroughly vetted by an expert and was valid.
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