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Trademarks and the Metaverse: Imaginary Rights or Real Wrongs?

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Though it is not easy to find a comprehensive list of all such trademarks in India (the website of the Indian TMR is so yesterday), recently advertised trademarks throw light on such activity. Some examples under class 9 include: S.No. Application date. Description (shortened). Feb 25, 2022. Feb 22, 2022. Dec 21, 2021. Dec 21, 2021.

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NFTs: New Frontiers for Trademarks

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Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. So from our perspective, NFTs stands not only for β€œnon-fungible tokens” but also β€œNew Frontiers for Trademarks.”.

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NFTs: New Frontiers for Trademarks

LexBlog IP

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. So from our perspective, NFTs stands not only for “non-fungible tokens” but also “New Frontiers for Trademarks.”

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IP and NFTs: Where are We?

LexBlog IP

They are sold and/or traded in connection with “smart contracts” that govern the terms of transfer. In this case, beyond pure IP issues, the parties disagree over interpretation of Tarantino’s original contract with Miramax, in which he reserved all rights for print publication of the screenplay (including in digital form).

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (August 23 – 29)

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Domex Advertisement: Product Disparagement or Nominative Fair Use? In this guest post , Pragya Jain offers an independent analysis of the law in relation to comparative advertising and nominative fair use and applies it to analyse a recent YouTube commercial by Domex, a Hindustan Unilever Ltd. Other posts.

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Role Of NFTs In The Fashion Industry: An Overview

IIPRD

Recently, a new trend of merging of blockchain technology with creative intellectual property via non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) had taken place. The idea has spread across all market sectors, and now luxury fashion retailers have joined the tokenization bandwagon. Introduction. What are NFTs?

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NFT Update:Β  5 Recent Lawsuits Show a Glimpse into Future Legal Battles Involving NFTsΒ 

LexBlog IP

As previously reported on this blog , non-fungible tokens (or β€œNFTs”) recently emerged as one of the hottest new items on the art marketβ€”artists, auction houses, museums, sports organizations and others have jumped at the chance to create and sell their own versions of these unique tokens. Damon Dash. Miramax LLC v.