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Rise and Rise of Blockchain: A Patent Statistics Approach to Identify the Underlying Technologies

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Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2020)

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Researchers have always tried to identify the technological evolution of any particular technology with the help of patent statistics. Blockchain is one such technology which, although emerged more than a decade ago, but has been aggressively applied and studied within the past five years only. Therefore, this study is an attempt to identify the underlying technologies that eventually constitute the Blockchain technology. This paper identifies the literature related to the primary Blockchain technologies and then tries to perform basic patent statistics to identify the earliest innovation that conforms to the idea of blockchain that we know today. Critical Cooperative Patent Classification (CPCs) codes to analyze Blockchain patents in the future are identified. Specific and detailed analysis methods are suggested for the future Blockchain patent research.

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Bhatt, P.C., Kumar, V., Lu, TC., Cho, R.LT., Lai, K.K. (2020). Rise and Rise of Blockchain: A Patent Statistics Approach to Identify the Underlying Technologies. In: Sitek, P., Pietranik, M., Krótkiewicz, M., Srinilta, C. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1178. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3380-8_40

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