IP and Legal Filings

MAY 24, 2024

The dispute revolved around an antediluvian luxury handbag brand ‘Hermès’ and artist Mason Rothschild for his avant-garde creation called MetaBirkin NFTs. Secondly, it refused to recognize those non fungible tokens as an ‘Art’ and held them disentitled for any protection under the ‘First Amendment’.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 13, 2024

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the United States Copyright Office (“USCO”) delivered a report to Congress entitled Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property on March 12, 2024 (“Report”).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are one of many possible use cases for how blockchain technologies could help monetize creative works and reduce the reliance on intermediaries (for an analysis of copyright issues with NFTs see here and here ). More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. by Christopher Heath. €

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Garrigues Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The auction of NFT ( non-fungible tokens ), which we addressed in this post , comprising wearable works of digital art, has revolutionized the trademark industry. Also, think about those items that luxury brands bring out jointly with other firms that are practically works of art. Think for example of influencers.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Benjamin is a future trainee solicitor at a commercial law firm. He is based in London and hopes to specialise in trade marks and brands. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford and King's College London, where he studied IP subjects and realised that he would like to pursue this field of law. His name is Benjamin Goh.

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IIPRD

JUNE 9, 2024

As in the real world the logos, domain, and brand names of products and services are protected under Trademark, virtual goods, and services can be trademarked in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Trademarks A Trademark can be a mark, symbol, design, color, combination of colors, shapes, etc.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

” Other courts, and perhaps even the USPTO and Copyright Office, will likely look to Judge Rakoff’s initial guidance as a foundation for this newly evolving area of intellectual property law moving forward. ” Rothschild lost his motion to dismiss and is seeking certification for an interlocutory appeal. .”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 5, 2022

In particular, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), crypto and metaverse have dominated our infospace. Last Wednesday, Fide (a legal-economic think-tank) held the latest in their series of Global Digital Encounters (GDE) – an online panel discussion focusing on the metaverse and IP with some of the leading experts in digital laws.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The fleeting non-fungible token (NFT) craze showed that some people are willing to pay vast amounts of money for digital assets that are not guaranteed to retain their value. Major brands such as Coca-Cola, Disney, Nike, and Ubisoft were quick to jump on the bandwagon, for example.

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