By Max Jaeger (September 22, 2021, 5:22 PM EDT) – A dispute over the virtual office of a New York law firm spilled over into the physical realm on Wednesday when the firm sued to invalidate the trademark of a rival California company with the term “metaverse” Act. “
The “metaverse hq” virtual office that Falcon Rappaport & Berkman PLLC built on the Decentraland platform. Falcon Rappaport and Berkman PLLC want to invalidate the eponymous Newport Beach Metaverse Act trademark, based on the 2018 federal law, arguing in a New York federal lawsuit that “metaverse” is too generic a concept to protect.
“The defendant is not able to monopolize the use of the phrase ‘METAVERSA LAW’ than a company could …
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