Odaily Planet Daily News The DeFi Education Fund submitted a petition to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in the New York District Court to oppose the lawsuit accusing MakerDAO and Compound Protocol of alleged patent infringement. The DeFi Education Fund said it will defend the cryptocurrency industry’s ability to use open source software.
Technology company True Return Systems (TRS) sued Compound Protocol and MakerDAO in October 2022, claiming that it allegedly infringed the intellectual property rights of the patent "The process of bringing off-chain data onto the chain, including the use of oracles".