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Around the IP Blogs

The IPKat

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. Dennis Crouch shared a new whitepaper on Patents, Knowhow, and Vaccine Diplomacy via Patentlyo. Apple, Nokia v.

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The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary

TorrentFreak

The ability to comment was also sacrificed at some point, and user registrations were closed for years, although there’s some progress on that front now. The Mods and Admins Today’s manual user registrations are processed by a dedicated moderator team, which also ensures that the site remains free of spam and malware.

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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.