Partner Nelson M. Rosario will be speaking at the "Allerton Conference 2023 - Technology and the Courts: Transforming the Delivery of Justice" presented by the Illinois State Bar Association in Champaign, Illinois on March 31, 2023. Rosario will be moderating a discussion on “Using AI to Resolve Small Claims Cases (and Changing/Adopting Ethics Rules to Reflect…
Partner Nelson M. Rosario will be speaking at the Consensus 2022 Festival presented by CoinDesk in Austin, Texas on June 10, 2022. Rosario will be speaking on a panel entitled "Where is the Regulatory Sweet Spot?" along with speakers Jerry Brito, and Lia Holland.
The 2022 Consensus festival is a showcase and celebration of all that crypto has to offer.…
Academic research into NFTs is starting to grow as the space evolves and more and more money flows into the space. Recent research highlights two issues that frequently come up for non-fungible token holders, creators, and platforms: what kind of property are they? and what are the copyright vulnerabilities associated with NFTs?
The first bit of…
The "metaverse" is the hottest ticket in town these days despite the fact there is no single definition of what constitutes the metaverse. Putting aside the definitional matter, there is a lot of money flowing into metaverse projects, which for better or worse means there are metaverse patents.
Now of course, if no one knows exactly what…
Right of publicity is one of the many intellectual property concerns associated with non-fungible tokens. It is the protection against a commercial use of someone’s name, likeness, or persona without their permission. While there is no federal law governing right of publicity, several states have common law causes of action or formal legislation granting such…
The events unfolding in Ukraine include the Ukrainian government soliciting donations in the form of cryptocurrency for their defense effort. This overt involvement of cryptocurrency in an event of such geopolitical significance may signal a shift in the risk calculus for companies operating in this space.
Since the beginning, the cryptocurrency industry has had to consider government…