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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
Read the first 2025 edition of the Intellectual Property & Data Protection Newsletter, a publication from Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown. In this newsletter, Counsel Cristiane Manzueto and associate...more
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
The Cryptocurrency Revolution and President Biden's Formal Recognition - Out of the ashes of the 2008 financial crisis, Bitcoin sprang up like an insurgency, targeting both the unbridled activity of large financial...more
The qualities of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), including digital scarcity, immutable persistence, and transferability on a blockchain, make NFTs an attractive technology to integrate into video games. NFTs have been implemented...more
Companies spend billions and invest heavily in technologies that offer greater telepresence and enable an individual’s digital life. Will humans interact with each other via avatars in a three-dimensional virtual space? The...more
Strange as it may be, with vast majority of the world still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, we are on the eve of the opening ceremony for the “2020” Tokyo Summer Olympics. Olympic games in “normal” times are logistical...more
Over the last several years, you may have heard the term “blockchain.” Blockchain technology has emerged as an innovative, record-keeping technology, most notably recognized as the underlying technology behind Bitcoin...more
VIDEO: Cryptocurrency - Legitimate Uses and Potential Issues - Following the recent publication of the U.S. Attorney General's cryptocurrency enforcement framework, Spilman attorneys Corey Bonasso and Nick Mooney discuss...more
When is a digital asset a security or a commodity? Are SAFTs safe? Does hyping blockchain create an expectation of profit? Is blockchain a trademark, trade secret or neither? Are free tokens tax-free? Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?...more
The plot has thickened in the longest-running “whodunit” in the blockchain space: Who is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin and author of the white paper that started it all, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer...more
Over the past several years, blockchain and the technologies based on it – most notably cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum – have dominated much of the discourse in the banking and financial services industries. ...more
Walmart’s U.S. patent application involving blockchain technology is one of many blockchain-based patent applications that have been filed by large companies smitten with blockchain technology. Published May 17, 2018, but...more
Content owners and their attorneys have been enthusiastically anticipating the use of blockchain as a mechanism for royalty accounting, recording the chain of title of intellectual property interests, and protecting, tracking...more
Bitcoin is often portrayed as an untraceable method of payment that facilitates illicit activities by enabling criminals to make and receive payments without being tracked. This depiction implies that users transacting in...more
As the number of blockchain-based patents and patent applications increases, more companies have become interested in pursuing these patents. Other companies still think that blockchain-based inventions are not patentable....more
Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology are rapidly emerging as disruptive technologies. As has happened with many new technologies, particularly disruptive ones, a patent arms race is occurring. The number of patents...more
Domain name registrations often reflect current trends and it is thus not surprising that a large number of recent second-level domain name registrations under .COM and .NET include terminology relating to blockchain....more
In this series of blog posts, we take a look at the current state of play regarding blockchain technology as well as the legal setting with a European and German focus....more
Whoever thinks of blockchain also has inevitably bitcoins in mind. The Internet currency is largely based on the blockchain technology and it is therefore one of the most obvious fields of application for this technology, to...more
Alien Tort Statute (ATS)/Torture Victims Protection Act (TVPA)/Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) - District Court Dismisses ATS Claim Where Alleged Conduct in US Was Not Directly Linked to Injuries Claimed in Other Countries - ...more