Concept timestamping on blockchain and decentralization of patents

Abstract

We describe a system for registering new inventions and design based on conceptual graphs and the blockchain. Instead of describing the innovation in text as in patent claims, the claims are documented using conceptual graphs as a structured graphical method for capturing concepts and their relationship. Conceptual graphs as a structured graphical method allows easier automatic semantic comparisons. It obviates the need from extracting semantic concepts from text using natural language processing techniques. The graphs then can be hashed and submitted to the blockchain for timestamping to claim the innovation.