Crystal Palace Football Club joins the metaverse and NFT space with trademark filing

As organizations, manufacturers, and celebrities across the globe present rising curiosity in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and the metaverse as new methods to attach with followers, British soccer membership Crystal Palace has determined to leap on the bandwagon as properly.

Certainly, Crystal Palace F.C. filed a trademark utility for its crest with the USA Patent and Trademark Workplace (USPTO) on June 27, based on the licensed metaverse trademark legal professional Michael Kondoudis who shared the information together with his followers by way of Twitter on July 1.

As a part of its trademark utility, the soccer membership has coated NFTs, cryptocurrencies, digital collectibles, digital footwear, clothes, and sports activities gear, on-line NFT and crypto marketplaces and exchanges, NFT-authenticated media, and extra.

Metaverse and NFTs take maintain within the soccer house

With this submitting, Crystal Palace has adopted within the footsteps of different high-profile soccer contributors, together with the French soccer membership Paris Saint-Germain, which filed for its NFT-related trademark utility in mid-March.

In early June, the English Premier League, one of many most-watched sports activities leagues globally, inside which Crystal Palace F.C. competes, ventured into the metaverse with two filings earlier than the USPTO for its identify and “lion head” brand, alongside the “loving cup trophy” brand.

On high of that, in late June soccer star and Manchester United participant Cristiano Ronaldo entered right into a multi-year unique NFT partnership with Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency trade by buying and selling quantity, with an goal of making a number of NFT merchandise on the platform.

Curiosity within the metaverse throughout industries

The NFTs and metaverse don’t simply attraction to the world of soccer. A few of the different main names to affix the house in latest months embrace Nationwide Basketball Affiliation (NBA) star Kevin Durant, American eCommerce large eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), main chocolate producer Mars Inc., automaker DeLorean Motor Firm, rapper Snoop Dogg, and plenty of extra.

As Finbold reported, NFT-related logos in the USA surpassed 4,000 between January 1 and Could 31, 2022, which signifies that roughly 27 new NFT logos have been filed per day within the first half of the yr.