Following on from last week’s blog, I realised maybe I had jumped the gun somewhat. Since the European Commission has now published their report (and a Consolidated Tape for derivatives is included), I thought it worthwhile to take a step back. What actually is a Consolidated Tape and what that might mean for Transparency in […]

The Rich Bulls Club is foreseen as a prominent actor in the 2021 crypto sphere. The launch of their NFT collection will be on the 2nd of December 2021 at 9 PM EST on https://richbullsclub.io. Once their 9999 unique NFTs are sold, they will organize a massive, live-streamed, 4-days real-life Squid Game in which 100 randomly chosen Rich Bulls owners will compete to win one million dollars.
The first real-life Squid Game: Is Rich Bulls Club NFT the next Bored Apes?

But what exactly is the Rich Bulls Club? It is a collection of 9999 bullish NFTs—unique digital collectibles living on the Ethereum blockchain. With over 170+ hand-drawn traits, your exclusive NFT serves as a membership to an elite club with multiple members-only benefits like invitations to parties and events with A-listers, big YouTubers and major influencers.

More and more people see NFT as the future of art. This new form of passive income is only at its early stage like bitcoin was in 2014. The NFT market grew by over 705% by the end of 2020 and is forecasted to grow exponentially until 2026.

Some very popular NFTs like CryptoPunks or Bored Apes saw their price rise by 1000 to over 10 000% after launching, and Rich Bulls might be one of them especially considering what they are planning.

The collection includes 7 primal bulls and 3 mythic bulls, each minter of a primal bull will be rewarded with $10,000 in ETH. Furthermore, once the collection is sold out, if you were lucky enough to mint a mythic bull, you will win a real 2020 Lamborghini Huracan if you got the Lamby Mythic Bull, a 2020 McLaren 600LT if you got the Laren Mythic Bull or a 2019 Ferrari 488 GTB if you got the Rary Mythic Bull unless you choose to receive 240 000$ in Ethereum instead!

After the minting process is over, the Rich Bulls Team will start a massive marketing campaign. Afterwards, ground-breaking features like an NFT investment fund will be implemented, enabling holders to invest in new NFT projects pre-launch, which is far more profitable than even a pre-sale slot.

Like any other NFT, your Rich Bull will be safely stored in the Ethereum blockchain, and you will own complete copyright over the art. There will only be 9999 Rich Bulls forever, so the best time to get one will be on launch since, let alone the history-making events and marketing campaigns, scarcity alone is often enough to make your NFT valuable and drive its price up. NFTs are the new Rolexes, and being able to flex it on social media or use it to create personalized merch is another perk on its own.

Unlike most NFTs, Rich Bulls Club is powered by a registered company incorporated in the United States (KodakMoney LLC), which makes the team responsible for the project before law and means that they have the legal responsibility to deliver on every commitment they make. Furthermore, on top of being open-source, their smart-contract and minting system will be audited and secured by a professional and trusted team (Certik) that includes engineers with experience from Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and Facebook.

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The Board erred by failing to consider whether the registered BROOKLYN BREW SHOP mark has acquired distinctiveness for beer-making kits. In an effort by the owners of the mark BROOKLYN BREWERY to cancel registration of the mark BROOKLYN BREW SHOP, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has held that the Trademark Trial...

The first thing that comes to mind when you think of high-value cargo is a trailer filled with iPhones or laptops. The problem for criminals with these shipments is that these devices are registered and can be tracked. For criminals, a second factor that makes a shipment high-value is the ease of selling it. This […]

Paragraph 30(2)(a) of the Trademarks Act requires that an application for a trademark must describe the associated goods and services in “ordinary commercial terms.” Approximately 64% of all objections raised by CIPO trademark examiners relate to goods and services descriptions. This note explains how applicants can mitigate the risk and cost of encountering such an objection. Using...

ESET researchers have discovered strategic web compromise (aka watering hole) attacks against high‑profile websites in the Middle East

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The latest issue of Music & Copyright is now available for subscribers to download. Here are some of the highlights. Scales tip in favor of labels in the global value of copyright Music should know how much it’s worth. Calculating the global value of music copyright provides the answer. Will Page, former chief economist of … Continue reading New issue of Music & Copyright with Australia country report →

Section 11(1) of the Designs Act, 2000, grants copyright protection to a design for a period of ten years from the date of registration. However, if priority is claimed then the registration period is calculated as being ten years from the priority date. Further, as per Section 11(2) of the Designs Act, 2000, a design may be renewed once for an additional period of 5 years anytime within the initial ten-year period of registration

The German Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) has issued a landmark decision on the relationship between national trademark law and the protection of geographical indications under EU law. The case is called “Hohenloher Landschwein / Hohenloher Weiderind”, with Hohenlohe being a region in Southern Germany, and Landschwein and Weiderind translating into country pork and grazing cattle, respectively...

-- SDG Exchange (https://sdgexchange.io/), the first-of-its-kind, global exchange platform for carbon credits and other SDG assets, today announced that its exchange and marketplace infrastructure platform is now live. 

SDG Exchange was founded to fully enable efficient, transparent and trusted global marketplaces for carbon offsets pursuant to Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.   All assets listed on SDG Exchange platforms are compliant with Paris Agreement Article 6, fully verified by independent third-party auditing and meet the most rigorous standards, including ISO 14064-3.  

Carbon credits entering SDGx's Carbon Asset Monetization (CAM) marketplace are registered on blockchain, eliminating current carbon market inefficiencies including double counting, double printing, double spending, and emerging double retirement.  All transactions, custodianship, accounting and retirement are public record via immutable distributed ledger.  Carbon credits can remain as a credit, or be transferred into a digital Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes (ITMO) unit, allowing the transfer of carbon credits between countries and marketplaces globally.  Pursuant to Article 6, one ITMO equals one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent.  Asset transactions are fulfilled via Fiat, Bitcoin or Ethereum.

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SDGx delivers turnkey SDG market infrastructure for countries that require offset markets and offset solutions to meet Paris Agreement commitments (Nationally Determined Outcomes or NDCs).   As well, SDGx provides trading and custodial solutions for enterprises to meet requirements of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).  SDGx also offers an independent exchange capable of transacting in and across every market, including delivering global offset price normalization.

SDGx initial carbon credit supply are high quality regenerative agriculture carbon offset projects, fully meeting the stringent requirements of ISO 14064, and actively reduce carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (i.e. drawdown).  

“SDGx's platform delivers market infrastructure with transparency, trust, accountability, efficiency and global price normalization, which is exactly what countries and large private sector players need for global carbon offset markets to reach the scale and volume required to mitigate climate change.  We look forward to being a trusted marketplace enabler.”

Article 6 of the Paris Agreement calls for a robust global marketplace for trading carbon offsets as one of the primary tools to address climate change.  Five years later, a global consensus on market standards remains elusive. The SDGx platform is a major step forward in market standard execution.

The SDG Exchange platform has been in development for four years and is backed by a number of blockchain angel investors, including Michael Terpin (Transform Group), Nikolai Mushegian (MakerDAO), and Brock Pierce (Tether).

For more information on the SDG Exchange, please visit https://sdgexchange.io.

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SDG Exchange is the first-of-its-kind, global exchange platform enabling Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.. It seamlessly integrates all carbon markets globally, allowing for quick, safe, and profitable trading of these assets. The SDG Exchange platform uses blockchain technology to track carbon, facilitate trading, and verify compliance, providing a long-term solution for the $300B sustainability marketplace. For more information, please visit https://sdgexchange.io.

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Recently, both Australia and New Zealand have reached ‘agreement in principle’ on proposed free trade agreements (FTAs) with the UK.  Details of the Australia-UK agreement in principle can be found on the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) website, while the NZ-UK agreement in principle is available from the NZ Foreign Affairs and Trade website.  Each document states that Australia/NZ will make all reasonable efforts to join the UK as members of the Hague Agreement, which provides an international registration system for industrial designs.  An article which appeared on the Lexology site last month stated that these developments imply that ‘Australia has (finally!) agreed to join the Hague Agreement on Industrial Designs’.

This is not true.  I do not see Australia joining the Hague Agreement in the foreseeable future, Australia-UK FTA notwithstanding.  I am less familiar with the political position in New Zealand, but suspect that the situation is not much different in the Land of the Long White Cloud.

Here is a fun fact…  Article 17.1(5) of the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA), which entered into force on 1 January 2005, states that:

Each Party shall make its best efforts to comply with the provisions of the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs (1999), and the Patent Law Treaty (2000), subject to the enactment of laws necessary to apply those provisions in its territory.

Yet here we are, nearly 17 years later, and Australia is still not a member of the Hague Agreement.  It would seem that the phrase ‘best efforts’ in a trade agreement basically amounts to nothing more than a promise to think about it over an unspecified – and potentially indefinite – time frame.  I suspect, therefore, that an undertaking to make ‘reasonable efforts’ in an agreement in principle is code for ‘they want us to do it; we have no plans to commit to doing it; but we do not want to hold up negotiations by actually saying no.’

And there are very good reasons – namely three separate processes of review and consultation since 2012 – for believing that Australia has no intention of joining the Hague Agreement any time soon.

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With the third quarter coming to a close and year-end reporting just around the corner, public companies should be giving careful thought to the evolving landscape for climate-related disclosures. While it did not promulgate any new rules in 2021 regarding these disclosures, the SEC has been actively commenting on climate change disclosures, and new rules are almost certainly on the way.

Since 2010, the SEC has made clear that its existing disclosure regime requires issuers to assess and,… More

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