Bloomberg Law
December 21, 2016, 1:18 PM UTC

Wake Up Call: Blockchain Patents Spell Legal Trouble for Startups

• In recent months, some of the biggest financial companies, from Goldman Sachs to Bank of America and Mastercard, have been quietly patenting promising blockchain technologies. And that could mean costly legal problems for start-up app developers using what they mistakenly believe to be open-source code, lawyers and others say. ( Bloomberg )

• After Theranos Inc. had a falling out with Boies, Schiller & Flexner over strategy, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr and other firms have jumped in to grab work with the embattled blood-testing startup. ( The Recorder )

• Matthew C. Solomon, who recently left the ...

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