Craig Wright has seemingly taken the primary steps to problem the decision of the Crypto Open Patent Alliance’s (COPA) contempt of court docket case, in response to sources aware of the proceedings. 

Based on patent legal professional David Pearce, who cites individuals straight concerned with the case, paperwork filed with the court docket by Wright earlier this month are seemingly an software for permission to enchantment.

Pearce informed Protos, “I’m conscious from Wright’s very temporary feedback and, extra reliably, from somebody I do know concerned within the COPA v Wright case that he has submitted one thing to the Supreme Court docket.

“This would have to be an application for permission to appeal, following the decision of the Court of Appeal refusing his permission to appeal there.”

Pearce provides nevertheless that, if that is certainly the case, the applying gained’t get far. “The problem is that any appeal to the Supreme Court is legally barred, so Wright is inevitably going to get his application rejected.”

Wright claimed when he was discovered responsible of contempt of court docket final December that he would enchantment the decision. Throughout a listening to, Wright was additionally informed to pay £144,000 ($180,000) to cowl COPA’s authorized prices and given a two-year suspended jail sentence.