Crunchfish receives European patent for its initial fundamental offline payment innovation
Crunchfish Digital Cash AB (“Crunchfish”) has received a Notice of Allowance from the European Patent Office (EPO) for its initial Digital Cash patent application. Europe is the second major jurisdiction to grant a patent for this innovation following the grant in the US earlier this year. The patent with application number EP 20 916 267.6 is valid until January 2040, 20 years from the original filing date.
This patent protects many fundamental aspects of offline payments. The basic premise is that the transaction is digitally signed by the payer from a hardware-based or software-based secure element if there is sufficient balance available and that the transaction is then transferred offline to the payee. Both parties store the digital transaction, which is later sent to the backend when either party gets online access.
This patent application has previously been granted in the US, received a positive International Preliminary Report on Patentability and is also in the process of nationalizing the patent application in India, China, and Taiwan. In Europe, Crunchfish intends to request a European patent with unitary effect (Unitary Patent) that provides uniform patent protection in the 18 EU Member States participating in enhanced co‑operation and having ratified the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court.
“It is extremely pleasing that our initial fundamental Digital Cash patent application for offline payments will now also be granted in the Europe. This is strategically important as the patent application has an early priority date from January 2020, the focus on offline payment in Europe with the Digital Euro and other offline payment providers, and that it increases the chances of a grant also in India and China”, says Joachim Samuelsson, CEO of Crunchfish.
For more information, please contact:
Joachim Samuelsson, CEO of Crunchfish AB
+46 708 46 47 88
joachim.samuelsson@crunchfish.com
This information is such information as Crunchfish AB is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out above, at 10:45 CET on December 16th, 2024.
Västra Hamnen Corporate Finance AB is the Certified Adviser. Email: ca@vhcorp.se. Telephone +46 40 200 250.
About Crunchfish – crunchfish.com
Crunchfish is a deep tech company developing a device-agnostic generic trusted client application platform for offline payments, tokenized card payments as well as other mobile client / server systems. Crunchfish has been listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market since 2016, with headquarters in Malmö, Sweden and with a subsidiary in India.
