tZERO Group, Inc., a pioneer in blockchain-based financial infrastructure since 2014, announced today that it has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Securitize, Inc., alleging infringement of two of its patents. The move marks an escalation in tZERO's strategic enforcement of its intellectual property portfolio, which now comprises 105 patents across 23 families worldwide. The company also revealed that it is investigating at least six other market participants for potential patent violations.
The patents at issue in the Securitize matter are U.S. Patent No. 11,216,802, titled "Self-enforcing Security Token Implementing Smart-contract-based Compliance Rules Consulting Smart-contract-based Global Registry of Investors," and U.S. Patent No. 11,394,560, titled "Crypto integration platform." tZERO claims that Securitize's DS protocol and Vault Registrar infringe these patents. The company is continuing to investigate other patents, including those covering crypto multiple security asset creation and redemption, upgradeable security tokens, consolidated order books, and whitelisted transaction addresses.
Beyond Securitize, tZERO's investigation has identified products from at least six other firms in sectors such as regulated real-world asset and digital asset securities platforms, institutional infrastructure, prime brokerage, decentralized sequencing, and decentralized exchanges. tZERO expects to send demand letters to these parties after completing its analysis. The company's broader portfolio focuses on enabling compliant, scalable, and interoperable tokenized capital markets infrastructure.
In addition to the enforcement update, tZERO highlighted additional patent families that support core technologies for tokenized markets. These include patents for crypto multiple security asset creation and redemption (U.S. Patent No. 11,704,733), consolidated order books from multiple asset exchanges (U.S. Patent No. 11,436,673), decentralized trading systems for fair ordering and matching of trades (U.S. Patent No. 10,937,083), and obfuscation of intent in transactions using cryptographic techniques (U.S. Patent No. 10,552,829). Together, these technologies underpin issuance, trading, liquidity aggregation, custody, settlement, and transaction privacy for regulated digital asset securities.
The enforcement actions come as the tokenization industry scales and matures. tZERO has invested substantial time, research, and capital to develop its IP portfolio, and the company stated it will remain vigilant in protecting its market position and shareholders' investment. The company plans to provide further updates on its patent strategy, enforcement, and commercialization initiatives.
Market participants interested in licensing discussions regarding tZERO's intellectual property portfolio may contact sales@tzero.com. For more information, visit www.tzero.com.
