Overview
- Securitize filed a complaint Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware asking a judge to declare that its products do not infringe two tZERO patents.
- tZERO first sent a cease-and-desist and reservation-of-rights letter on June 15, alleging Securitize’s DS Protocol and Vault Registrar violate U.S. patents Nos. 11,216,802 and 11,394,560.
- tZERO says the patents cover self-enforcing compliance controls, investor registry checks, issuance and redemption of tokenized assets, and blockchain-based trading infrastructure.
- tZERO told reporters it is investigating at least six other tokenization and crypto infrastructure firms for possible infringement, widening the dispute beyond a single rival.
- The clash poses commercial risk for Securitize and its institutional partners and could prompt licensing deals, engineering workarounds, or prolonged litigation that slows adoption by banks, exchanges and asset managers.