Dragonfly’s Qureshi Challenges DFINITY Patent Claim Over NEAR Intents

The dispute turns less on whether the technology was used than on timing and provenance, and Qureshi's argument leans on both: a patent granted only recently, a brief overlap window, and prior academic publication under a permissive license. That framing matters because it shifts the question from infringement to whether the patent's claims can survive a public-prior-art challenge at all. For crypto builders, the episode highlights how patent exposure can surface long after code ships, especially where implementations trace back to open research. Whether DFINITY pursues the claim formally, and how the prior-art question is tested, is the open question.