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Mastercard has filed 15 trademark applications covering a wide scope of services relating to the metaverse and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). “We are continually looking for opportunities to present caller and unsocial experiences to our customers and cardholders,” Mastercard said.
Mastercard’s NFT, Metaverse Trademark Applications
Payments elephantine Mastercard filed 15 trademark applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) past week covering a wide scope of products and services relating to non-fungible tokens and the metaverse.
A USPTO-licensed trademark attorney, Mike Kondoudis, noted that the trademark applications are for Mastercard, Priceless, and Mastercard’s circles logo. Priceless is simply a Mastercard run that provides cardholders with mundane discounts.
The trademark applications bespeak Mastercard’s plans for a wide scope of NFT projects, specified arsenic NFT-authenticated downloadable euphony files and marketplaces for integer goods and NFT-backed media.
They besides screen galore activities successful the metaverse including e-commerce bundle to let users to execute electrical concern transactions, outgo processing services, recognition paper processing, and providing fiscal information.
The serial numbers of the 15 trademark applications are 97346112, 97346101, 97346097, 97346083, 97346070, 97346064, 97346060, 97346043, 97346041, 97346029, 97346023, 97346019, 97346012, 97346003, and 97346993.
A Mastercard spokesperson told the Insider: “We are continually looking for opportunities to present caller and unsocial experiences to our customers and cardholders.” The spokesperson added:
This filing is simply portion of that effort, ensuring that the trademark extortion for our marque carries done to immoderate imaginable usage successful the metaverse uninterrupted.
A increasing fig of ample corporations person made a akin move, including Meta (formerly Facebook), Mcdonald’s, Burger King, Panera Bread, and Panda Express.
Last month, Citi predicted that the metaverse could beryllium a $13 trillion accidental with 5 cardinal users by the twelvemonth 2030. Global concern slope Goldman Sachs believes that the metaverse is an $8 trillion opportunity. Recently, megabanks JPMorgan and HSBC established a beingness successful the metaverse.
What bash you deliberation astir Mastercard’s 15 trademark applications for NFT and metaverse products and services? Let america cognize successful the comments conception below.
Kevin Helms
A pupil of Austrian Economics, Kevin recovered Bitcoin successful 2011 and has been an evangelist ever since. His interests prevarication successful Bitcoin security, open-source systems, web effects and the intersection betwixt economics and cryptography.
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