In a tweet earlier today, metaverse trademark attorney Michael Kondoudis revealed that GME Entertainment, LLC, the owner of the American video game, consumer electronics, and gaming merchandise retailer GAMESTOP, has filed two new trademark applications to register GAMESTOP NFT and a stylized version of that name for NFT and Metaverse related services. The applications were filed on March 23, 2022, and cover:

• providing non-downloadable computer programs relating to digital assets;

• providing non-downloadable computer programs for managing digital assets;

• providing non-downloadable computer programs for performing digital assets transactions;

• providing non-downloadable computer programs for performing transactions on one or more blockchain networks;

• providing non-downloadable computer programs for facilitating use of one or more blockchain networks;

• providing non-downloadable software for displaying digital images, audio-visual content, video content and text associated with non-fungible tokens (NFTs)

The trademark applications indicate that Gamestop started offering the listed NFT-related services on March 23rd.

"Gamestop is perhaps the world's largest video game retailer. Now that Gamestop has started offering NFT-related services, it only makes sense for the company to secure trademark protection for those services," Mr. Kondoudis said

Mr. Kondoudis added that these filings "continue the trend by gaming brands to secure trademark protections as they prepare to offer NFTs and NFT-related products and services."

"We expect the number of trademark filings from the gaming sector for NFT and virtual products and services to continue over the next twelve months as brands come to appreciate the need for protections in the Metaverse," Mr. Kondoudis concluded.

Michael Kondoudis is a Washington DC-based trademark lawyer who tracks Metaverse and NFT trademark filings at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.  Mr. Kondoudis does not represent GME Entertainment, LLC.

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