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Trademarks and the Metaverse: Imaginary Rights or Real Wrongs?

SpicyIP

World over companies are rushing to protect their trademarks in the online, virtual environment – the metaverse. A list of trademarks applied for in the EU for ‘ downloadable virtual goods’ and ‘online virtual services’ was recently published by The IPKat here. Image from here. Feb 22, 2022. Dec 21, 2021.

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Virtual Fashionistas: How can you protect fashion that you can’t touch?

Garrigues Blog

They will simply get a file sent to their phone, enabling them to download the item for use in the metaverse , i.e. the virtual world. The auction of NFT ( non-fungible tokens ), which we addressed in this post , comprising wearable works of digital art, has revolutionized the trademark industry.

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Trademarks And the Metaverse

IP and Legal Filings

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have also been investigated by other Indian companies for application in the metaverse. It ought to function similarly to how online contracts are upheld. The business may apply to register a multi-class trademark that covers both its products and services in the metaverse.