PANews reported on June 3 that according to Cointelegraph, Malikie Innovations recently sued Bitcoin mining companies Marathon Digital and Core Scientific, accusing them of infringing their patents with the elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) technology they used. The company acquired 32,000 "non-core" patents from BlackBerry in 2023. The lawsuit stated that the defendant mining companies used patented technology held by Malikie in their Bitcoin mining operations.

Legal expert Aaron Brogan said that such lawsuits usually do not target individual Bitcoin users, but may have a significant financial impact on the defendant mining company, and if they lose the case, they may face six years of royalties. AMLBot legal director Niko Demchuk believes that if the patents involved have expired or only cover technology before the implementation of Bitcoin ECC, Malikie's claim may be difficult to establish. The outcome of this case will depend on the specific scope of the patent and the court's interpretation.