Wright’s lawsuit names a defendant he calls “BTC Core,” which apparently does not exist. Wright alleges that BTC Core “companions” embrace 122 company entities and 22 people who contributed to bitcoin improvement and analysis. Wright additionally named BTC Core as a defendant in a 2022 lawsuit.
This week’s court docket ruling stated that “COPA (and others) say there isn’t a such entity and it’s an invention of Dr. Wright’s in his try to designate these who are or who have been concerned within the improvement of the software program utilized in varied manifestations of Bitcoin as a partnership. They deny there may be any such partnership, as Dr. Wright appears to allege. It’s not essential to resolve that problem.”
Companies and people that Wright claims are a part of BTC Core “had been defendants to varied of the earlier actions introduced by Dr. Wright (and his firms),” Mellor wrote.
Wright suit “repeat[s] his dishonest declare to be Satoshi”
Wright contended that his lawsuit falls exterior the bounds of the earlier order as a result of his new claims “don’t contain him claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto and don’t rely on him having invented the Bitcoin system,” Mellor wrote. Mellor rejected Wright’s arguments.
For one factor, Mellor stated the sooner order “just isn’t restricted to prohibiting claims depending on Dr. Wright asserting that he is Satoshi Nakamoto.” For an additional, Mellor identified that Wright’s newest lawsuit “does embrace pleaded contentions that he is Satoshi Nakamoto,” and thus “Dr. Wright is improper to say that his New Declare doesn’t repeat his dishonest declare to be Satoshi.”
Additional, COPA contended “that every of the principal claims within the New Declare can solely be maintained by Dr. Wright asserting mental property rights which the Order precludes him from asserting in authorized proceedings.”
Addressing Wright’s copyright declare, Mellor wrote that “Dr. Wright doesn’t declare a license or any project from another particular person alleged to be proprietor of copyright within the related works. Subsequently Dr. Wright can’t carry this declare for copyright infringement with out claiming possession of the rights which he alleges to have been infringed. That’s to say, Dr. Wright can’t carry an infringement declare in relation to the works in query, nevertheless it’s worded, with out breaching the Order.”
