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Top Trademark Trends of 2021 (Meta TMA edition)

Erik K Pelton

Here are what I found to be the most important trademark issues of the year: Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (“TMA”) goes into effect. The TMA was passed as part of the COVID relief bill in December 2020. Despite these steps, trademark applicants and registrants continue to be bombarded with scam mailings and communications.

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Top Trademark Trends of 2022

Erik K Pelton

And the number of active trademark registrations in the USPTO database is larger than ever. Additionally, since late December 2021, when new procedures went into effect, the USPTO has received around 100 expungement petitions and about 100 re-examination petitions to get rid of registrations for marks that are allegedly not in use.

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“For Sale: This Article”: an overview of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and IP

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NFT stands for non-fungible token. Non-fungible basically means unique. By way of comparison, a $10 note is an example of a fungible asset, because it can be replaced with another $10 note, or two $5 notes. And what role does intellectual property ( IP ) play in their creation and sale? What are NFTs?

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Analysing the Intersection of Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Intellectual Property Rights

IP and Legal Filings

Apart from this, Non-Fungible Tokens, the brainchild of Kevin McCoy and Anil Dash, is a unit of data stored in a digital ledger that certifies that the digital asset is unique and is hence non-interchangeable. Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have garnered attention and popularity in 2021.

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Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Indonesia

IP and Legal Filings

Non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) continue to be popular. Most significantly, “the development of blockchain technology” has been accepted as a legal business activity by the Indonesian standard industrial business categorization code, which was published in 2020. registration requirements.

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Trademarks And the Metaverse

IP and Legal Filings

According to a Bloomberg Intelligence report [2] , the worldwide revenue opportunity from the metaverse is predicted to hit $800 billion in 2024, up from the estimated $500 billion in revenue generated by the metaverse in 2020. The trademark registration safeguards the owner’s rights and establishes the business’s legal standing.

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NFT Trademark Filings Soar in 2021

LexBlog IP

In 2021, trademark filings for non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) reached a record high. In contrast, 2020 saw only a paltry 15 separate NFT trademark filings. Number of Trademarks Filed for Registration. 2020 saw only only 15 trademark filings while there are 1,505 trademark filings in 2021 and counting.