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Trump, Crypto and a New Era for IP Protection

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 3/25/2025

The cryptocurrency industry is undergoing a transformative period as the Trump administration adopts a more structured and proactive regulatory approach to digital assets such as Bitcoin. This evolving legal framework not...more

Five Reasons Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Startups Should Prioritize IP

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 2/23/2023

Despite recent headlines that have proclaimed “The End of Crypto” in view of large-scale failures at cryptocurrency companies like FTX, Celsius, and Blockfi, innovation in the space continues at an accelerating pace. Startups...more

Courts Offer More Guidance on Enforcing Rights to Brands and Images Used with NFTs

Holland & Knight LLP on 1/16/2023

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) serve as agile mechanisms to verify an underlying asset's authenticity and/or ownership linked with it. For now, minting NFTs to commercialize digital artwork on blockchain domain names continues to...more

Trademark infringement through NFTs - Intellectual property enforcement in the virtual world.

Hogan Lovells on 1/12/2023

The use of NFTs ("Non-fungible Tokens") can constitute a trademark infringement. This was recently decided by the IP Chamber of the Court of Rome (Tribunale di Roma, decision of 20 July 2022, ref. 32072/2022). The court...more

IP Rights in Virtual Fashion: Lessons Learned in 2022 and Unanswered Questions

Pierce Atwood LLP on 1/11/2023

There was a lot of talk and much hype about the “metaverse” in 2022. While some were skeptical and stayed on the sidelines to watch, many companies began offering virtual counterparts to their real-world products for use by...more

Meta Bags: NFT Complications and Considerations for Traditional Brand Owners

Stinson LLP on 9/26/2022

In yet another example of the law trying to keep up with technology, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a decision in Hermès International, et al. v. Mason Rothschild that examines...more

Metaverse: A Jumpstart Guide to Intellectual Property, Antitrust, and International Considerations

Morgan Lewis on 8/31/2022

The term “metaverse” first appeared in Neal Stephenson’s dystopian novel Snow Crash in 1992. Two decades later, the metaverse has evolved from a concept in print into an interactive and immersive reality. Its hyper-realistic...more

[EDRM Webcast Transcript] Considerations and Challenges for Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and NFT Investigations

HaystackID on 8/25/2022

Editor’s Note: On August 17, 2022, The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) under the leadership of Mary Mack and Kaylee Walstad, hosted HaystackID as we collectively shared an educational webcast developed to...more

The Metaverse: A Legal Primer for the Nonprofit Sector

ArentFox Schiff on 8/1/2022

The Metaverse is widely regarded as the next frontier in digital commerce, with organizations spending millions of dollars securing a presence by buying digital real estate and investing in platforms to be market leaders....more

Protecting Your Insurance Brands in the Metaverse

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 7/21/2022

Insurance has the potential to play a significant role in the metaverse, which is often defined as an immersive environment designed to be an extension or replica of the real world. For example, we can imagine scenarios where...more

A Trademark Guide to the Metaverse for Averse Brand Owners

Quarles & Brady LLP on 7/12/2022

Introduction - Recent technological developments have made topics like the metaverse, Web3, blockchain, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) commonplace. But nothing about these topics is common....more

Best Practices and Brand Exclusives: NFTs and Community Building in the Metaverse

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog on 5/12/2022

We’ve written extensively on the still somewhat recent arrival of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as both a potential revenue stream, caveat-filled investment destination and pop culture marker of the moment. Back in 2018, we...more

IP, Blockchain, and Digital Assets

Venable LLP on 4/13/2022

In 2008, a still-unknown person or group going by the alias Satoshi Nakamoto introduced blockchain technology and the first cryptocurrency to the world. In 2020, the cryptocurrency market was valued at $1.49 billion. And, in...more

NFTs: Gateway to Financial Independence or Litigation Risk?

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck on 3/2/2022

NFTs—or “nonfungible tokens”—are everywhere. What was once seen as a collectors’ item for crypto geeks and LeBron James TopShop fanatics is now gaining popularity with a much wider audience. Take the recent example of the...more

NFTs: What's in Store for 2022?

Morgan Lewis on 2/23/2022

2021 was a banner year for non-fungible token sales, which are projected to climb even higher in 2022. Selected by Collins English Dictionary as the 2021 Word of the Year, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are unique...more

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