Nick Johnson, founder and lead developer of the Ethereum Name Service (ENS), has urged blockchain domain name company Unstoppable Domains to abandon its recently granted patent or face lawsuits. according to An open letter shared on X (formerly Twitter).
In January of this year, Unstoppable Domains was granted its first patent, US11558344, which claimed Braden River Pezeshki, Matthew Everett Gould, and Bogdan Gusiev as the inventors of technology that uses blockchain technology to determine domain names.The patent request is submit 2021 with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Johnson said the patent is “based solely on innovations developed by ENS and does not contain novel innovations of its own.” ENS documentation Regulation That:
“The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is a decentralized, open, and scalable naming system based on the Ethereum blockchain. The job of ENS is to map human-readable names (such as “alice.eth”) to machine-readable names. Identifiers to read (e.g. Ethereum address, other names). Cryptocurrency addresses, content hashes, and metadata. “
In an open letter published on November 17, Johnson claimed that all ENS work is under an open source license and that all standards can be publicly implemented. According to him, in recent months, we have repeatedly tried to contact Unstoppable Domains about this issue, but all failed.
“UD subsequently issued a press release ‘committing’ to award its first patent to the Web3 Domain Alliance, an industry group founded and run by Unstoppable Domains. We appreciate the sentiment behind this, but unfortunately, the news The draft is not legally binding,” Johnson noted in the thread.
“We therefore demand that Unstoppable Domains put legal force behind its public relations promises and make unconditional and irrevocable patent commitments.”
Johnson warned that ENS Labs “is prepared to challenge this patent, which we believe is derived entirely from our own invention; we are able and willing to prove that position.”
Matthew Gould, one of the purported inventors of Unstoppable Domains responded In the post, there is an open invitation to join the Web3 Domain Name Alliance, a blockchain domain name registration organization that is said to have committed to owning the patent. Gould also believed:
“I don’t think the solution you propose takes into account the fact that we want to have multiple naming systems – not just ENS – and the only way to ensure the future is to have everyone (not just UD and ENS) All can use it. Collaborate.”
Cointelegraph contacted Unstoppable Domains but did not receive an immediate response.
The post caught the attention of the cryptocurrency community. Bob Summerwill, Executive Director of the Ethereum Classic Cooperative (ETC Cooperative), famous Requiring organizations to join the Web3 Domain Alliance to gain rights to the technology is also a direct attack on the open source ethos.
“Also, Matt, this prior commitment is not the same as what we are talking about, because legal entities need to “join the club” to benefit from the patent commitment. You reserve the right to patent attack anyone who does not comply and join your alliance.”
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