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Lanham Act Metaverse

Womble Bond Dickinson

What in the [Meta]World?: Abitron Creates More Questions than Answers

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At a glance, a unanimous Supreme Court, holding that two provisions of the trademark-governing Lanham Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 1114(1)(a) and 1125(a)(1)) do not apply extraterritorially and extend only to alleged infringement in...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Hermès Successfully Defends its Trademark in the Metaverse

How far does a trademark extend into the digital art world? French luxury fashion brand Hermès sought to answer this question in its precedent-setting case against artist Mason Rothschild, which concluded with a win for...more

Venable LLP

Branding the Future: Advertising Law, the Metaverse, and NFTs - Part 1

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​​​​​​​In his 1992 sci-fi thriller Snow Crash, author Neal Stephenson allowed his characters to escape from a dystopian Los Angeles into a completely virtual realm he called the metaverse. Thirty years later, in the age of...more

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