NFTs and Trademarks, What You Need to Know

NFTs and Trademarks, What You Need to Know

NFT, as a digital asset, as a unique digital certificate registered in the blockchain, as a currency used to record the ownership of assets such as artworks and collectibles, is being recognized by more and more people for its value, just as other Like tangible goods, NFT can be traded and exchanged, and the value of the goods increases as the number of users increases. Nowadays, more and more companies around the world have submitted trademark applications for their NFTs. According to statistics, in 2022, the United States submitted more than 1,500 NFT trademark applications, including Mattel, Entertainment Weekly, Legendary Pictures, and Nike. , Puma, McDonald's, Estee Lauder, Clinique, and even the New York Stock Exchange, companies in various industries are trying to submit intellectual property protection for the NFTs they own.

NFT involves categories, please refer to the following applicable categories:

Category 9

• Non-refundable token-based merchandise for use in online and online virtual worlds.
• Digital tokens; non-fungible tokens; digital tokens based on blockchain technology.
• Downloadable digital media such as music, files, sound recordings, videos and artwork, digital assets, digital collectibles, digital tokens, NFTs and digital art.

Class 35

Provides an online marketplace and registration for buyers and sellers of digital assets.

Class 36

Financial services, such as non-refundable token transactions; issuance of digital tokens.

Class 41

• Provide online non-downloadable virtual goods;
• Provide online non-downloadable virtual goods certified by NFT.

Class 42

• Provide temporary use of non-downloadable virtual goods and digital media, such as digital art, photos, videos, recordings, NFTs;
• Providing non-downloadable computer software in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT);
• Non-fungible token NFT; platform as a service, featuring a software platform that provides access to non-fungible tokens; providing information for non-fungible tokens.

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