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‘The Emperors’ New Codes’ – Can Crypto and NFTs Learn to Live with Copyrights, Trademarks and Patents?

May 3, 2022 Bruce Berman

“In the world of crypto and NFTs, everyone has a shot a being a hedge fund billionaire—or at least appears to.” Digital assets on a

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Photographer Says NFTs Transformed her Struggling Business; Now She Wants to Help Other Creators

March 15, 2022 Bruce Berman

Brittany Pierre was living in Chicago in 2020, living pay-check-to pay-check as a photographer and ducking the pandemic. She had difficulty paying her rent, groceries

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Large Numbers of Blockchain Shopping and Payment Patents are Waiting to Issue

July 6, 2021 Bruce Berman

More global blockchain patents have been published and are preparing to issue in transactions and e-commerce than have been issued over the past several years. 

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Can blockchain be a game-changer for millions of IP transactions?

July 24, 2018 Bruce Berman

The abundant promise of blockchain has yet to be realized. To many in IP, finance and tech, it is just beginning to come into sight.

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59% of blockchain patents are owned by developers; BofA and IBM dominate financial and tech players

April 24, 2018 Bruce Berman

More than half of U.S. blockchain patents are owned by blockchain-specific developers, while 20% are owned by financial institutions, led by Bank of America (see pie

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Will blockchain technology fuel a new patent war or prevent one?

September 8, 2016 Bruce Berman

The race is on to gain control of a new technology that has the power to reinvent banking and make transactions and other agreements between parties

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Since founding Brody Berman Associates in 1988 Bruce has been working with IP holders, executives and investors, as well as more than 80 law firms and their clients. In 2016 he founded the Center for IP Understanding, an independent non-profit, www.understandingip.org. He has been on an IAM 300 Leading IP Strategist every year since 2011 and is a member of its Hall of Fame Academy.

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