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TRADE MARKS According to Professor Barton Beebe of NYU School of Law, more than 77% of the 20,000 most common English words identically match a EUTM registration, and the remaining 23% of words have negative connotations. Global trademark and design applications boom in 2020! Is Europe running out of trade marks? Apple, Nokia v.

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Tokenization of intellectual property for IP rights management

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Consider the recent WIPO webinar , "Blockchain Whitepaper for IP Ecosystems", at which the view was expressed that the future of IP management rights could include a solution that utilizes tokens, and, in particular, non-fungible tokens. Julia Hugendubel, describes recent developments concerning tokenization of IP rights to manage IP.