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Top Trademark Trends of 2021 (Meta TMA edition)

Erik K Pelton

The uncertainties of COVID in a second year couldn’t stop huge application filing numbers and many developments in the world of trademarks. Here are what I found to be the most important trademark issues of the year: Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (“TMA”) goes into effect. NFT trademarks.

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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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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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Valentine’s Day: Trademark Filings & Tips to Protect Your IP

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The average US consumer is planning to spend $192 on Valentine’s Day gifts in 2023, up by 8% from 2022 – and just shy of 2020’s record ($196), according to The National Retail Federation [2]. A trademark is not just a means of securing and protecting a brand name, it is also a valuable business asset.

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Journey Through “Januarys” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)

SpicyIP

More recently in 2020, Sankalp Jain discussed the copyright challenges in “Dreams,” a video game enabling user-generated content, arguing for the Indian copyright law’s limitations in addressing the the issues around the fan-made creations within the game. Similarly, Shashank Singh penned a post called “ Gamers Beware!

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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. The trademark laws used to regulate cryptocurrency-related marks are in their nascent stage.

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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.