Dash Core Group, a company registered in the United States that is leading the development of the p2p payment platform and crypto currency Dash, filed a preliminary patent application for a solution related to the upcoming launch of the Evolution platform. This is reported by CoinJournal.
The application is associated with the methods of registering user accounts, the rules of interaction between them and the storage of relevant metadata.
According to the company, the decision to submit an application was made for defensive purposes, and the solution will be available as a free license in accordance with the terms of the corresponding licensing policy of the Dash Core Group.
"Just as Tesla made its patents on electric vehicle technology available to the public, we decided that it makes sense to provide our patent with a minimum level of protection." The use of a set of licensing criteria, similar to the point of the "intention in good faith" to open the Tesla patents, we can give free license to the public and to be sure that nobody will use the technology in order, which would be long-term objectives against Dash in relation to the Massive adoption of the network ", - said Dash Core CEO Ryan Taylor.
In 2014, in order to boost the development of the electric vehicle industry, Tesla CEO Elon Mask declared that the company will not have legal rights over other companies that use their patents if they act in good faith.
As Ryan Taylor says, the Dash Core Group protects its technology and all its potential users and developers of unscrupulous players who could patent it to extract improper profits or to prevent others from using it.
"We believe that the community will understand and appreciate our logic, and we see this as another great step towards a higher level of professionalism throughout the digital currency industry, as well as the protection of such a revolutionary technology as Evolution," he added.
The authors of the patent are the developers of Dash Evan Duffield, Andy Freer, Timothy Flynn, Nathan Marley, Darren Tapp, Alex Werner and Will Ray. The document itself is currently in closed mode and will be available for public review 18 months after the submission of the preliminary request.
In 2016, the Dash team published a new roadmap, which lists the expected release date of the Evolution software. The expected term was named in June 2017, however, as stated in the publication, Evolution will be launched in the second half of the year without specifying the month.