SBIR Phase I: IP Programmable Rights Units On Blockchains

小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是彻底改变全球对知识产权生态系统的参与。这家公司的创新标志着社会理解和管理知识产权的方式发生了范式转变，为增加价值创造铺平了道路，并使一个历史上被复杂性、成本和不透明所破坏的体系民主化。利用区块链的固有特征-去中心化、点对点动态、透明度和加密可验证性，有可能为知识产权许可和交易建立一个开放、高效和包容的系统。该项目的创新将为不同领域的创作者打破法律和经济上的障碍，包括艺术家、作家、电影制作人以及科学和商业创新者。由于这个项目的努力，对具有成本效益的基于区块链的平台的技术理解将得到加强，这是当今大规模基于区块链的用例的最大障碍之一。此外，还将在保持业务意义的同时，增强对可组合法律代表和模型的技术理解。到2029年，全球知识产权市场预计将达到210亿美元，区块链令牌/NFT市场预计到2030年将达到2110亿美元。这项颠覆性的使能技术具有巨大的商业潜力。这个SBIR第一阶段项目提议展示一种能力，即能够将代表知识产权的高度复杂的基于散文的法律构造解构为“可编程权利单元”，并以计算效率和成本高效的方式在任何区块链上运行这些单元。目标是双重的。首先，该项目将准确地将基于散文的法律文件解构为可组合的知识产权许可元素--“可编程权利单元”，并以无损的语义表示它们。这些解构单元必须能够以商业上可行的方式在区块链上执行。其次，该项目将展示以区块链不可知的形式实施可组合可编程权利的能力。这一目标对于商业成功至关重要，因为区块链的扩散将继续下去，因此，为了一个广阔的可寻址市场，需要支持许多区块链。这些目标将需要使用建模技术、语言模式分析(自然语言处理和其他)、技术架构成本影响分析以及对前沿技术的算法评估，例如零知识证明和可通过密码独立核实的人工制品和身份。预期结果将是一个经过验证的区块链激励性平台，准确代表复杂知识产权商业模型的语义含义，可以自动与其交互以执行商业交易。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to revolutionize global participation in the intellectual property ecosystem. This company's innovation signifies a paradigm shift in how society comprehends and manages intellectual property, paving the way for increased value creation and democratizing a system historically marred by complexity, cost, and opacity. Leveraging the inherent characteristics of blockchains—decentralization, peer-to-peer dynamics, transparency, and cryptographic verifiability it is possible to establish an open, efficient, and inclusive system for intellectual property licensing and transactions. This project’s innovation will break down barriers, both legal and economic, for creators across diverse fields, including artists, writers, filmmakers, and scientific and business innovators. Technical understanding of cost-efficient blockchain based platforms, today one of the biggest barriers to large scale blockchain based use cases, will be enhanced due to the efforts of this project. Additionally, enhanced technical understanding of composable legal representations and models while maintaining business meaning will be achieved. The global intellectual property rights market is projected to be $21B by 2029 and the blockchain token/NFT market is projected to be $211B by 2030. This disruptive enabling technology has significant commercial potential.This SBIR Phase I project proposes to demonstrate the ability to deconstruct intensely complex prose based legal constructs representing intellectual property rights into “programmable rights units” and operate these units on any blockchain in a compute efficient and cost efficient manner. The objectives are twofold. First, the project will accurately deconstruct prose-based legal documents into composable IP licensing elements, “programmable rights units,” and represent them in non-lossy semantic meanings. These deconstructed units must be capable of execution on blockchains in a commercially viable way. Second, the project will demonstrate the ability to implement composable programmable rights in a blockchain-agnostic form. This objective is crucial for commercial success as the proliferation of blockchains will continue, thus, supporting many blockchains is required for a broad addressable market. These objectives will require usage of modeling techniques, linguistic pattern analysis (natural language processing and otherwise), technical architectural cost impact analysis as well as algorithmic evaluation of leading edge technologies such as zero knowledge proofs and cryptographically independently verifiable artifacts and identities. The anticipated results will be a proven, blockchain agonistic platform that accurately represents the semantic meaning of complex IP rights business models that can be automatically interacted with for executing commercial transactions.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.