Keeping in step with the recent growth of e-commerce, there has been a rapid increase in the number of cases where foreign business entities directly sell and send by mail a small amount of counterfeit goods to individuals residing in Japan.
Russian war on Ukraine has resulted in series of US sanctions and Russian countermeasures that have disrupted the coordination of patent and trademark rights between US and Russia. Rospatent, Russian equivalent of the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Hermès International, et al. v. Mason Rothschild, represents one of multiple recent disputes between fashion house and non-fungible token, NFTs, creator attempting to implement a brand’s trademarks into a new digital frontier – the metaverse.
Two leading international brands have filed lawsuits in 2022 to prevent the sale of digital NFTs depicting their physical products, and both cases will test existing trademark law and impact online retailers of NFTs.
Two leading international brands have filed lawsuits in 2022 to prevent the sale of digital NFTs depicting their physical products, and both cases will test existing trademark law and impact online retailers of NFTs.