Japanese automotive model Nissan has develop into the newest automotive producer to ramp up its Web3 efforts, submitting 4 new Web3-related logos filed in the US, whereas its Japan unit is experimenting with auto gross sales within the metaverse.
In accordance with Nissan’s Mar. 7 trademark functions to the US Patent and Trademark Workplace (USPTO), the brand new filings cowl its Infiniti, Nismo and Nissan manufacturers.
#NISSAN has filed 4 trademark functions for
▶️ INFINITI
▶️ NISMO
▶️ NISSANThe filings sign plans for
Digital Garments + Automobiles
Shops for Digital Items + NFTs
NFT Marketplaces + Buying and selling + Minting
Metaverse Promoting Providers#NFT #NFTCommunity #Metaverse #Web3 #Car pic.twitter.com/iG3ZVgyD5t— Mike Kondoudis (@KondoudisLaw) March 13, 2023
The filings to the USPTO reveal Nissan’s plans to create digital garments, automobiles, headgear, buying and selling playing cards, toys, tickets, and an NFT market for buying and selling and minting NFTs.
The corporate has additionally outlined plans for metaverse promoting companies and different “leisure companies” masking on-line video, pictures, paintings, tickets, audio, sounds, music, and buying and selling playing cards, together with a web site that has info on all the things about Nissan’s proposed NFTs and the way they may work.
There are additionally intentions for “non-downloadable pc software program to be used as a digital pockets,” in accordance with the submitting.
Take a look at drive a Nissan within the metaverse
Final week on Mar. 8, Nissan Japan announced it’s conducting a three-month “demonstration experiment” of its digital retailer “Nissan Hype Lab” to “examine, seek the advice of, take a look at drive, and buy Nissan autos,” whereas within the metaverse.
“On the similar time we’ll look at the opportunity of new gross sales strategies for automobiles,” it wrote in a press release.
The trial, which runs from Mar. 8 to Jun. 30, will permit prospects to go to the digital storefront “24 hours a day” through a PC or smartphone. Clients can create their very own personalized avatars and between sure hours, may even work together with digital gross sales employees.
Clients could make an order for the automotive and finalize buy contracts via this digital gross sales workplace, in accordance with the announcement.
Nissan additionally previously filed 5 trademark functions in October 2022 for a few of its extra outstanding automotive fashions, together with SKYLINE, Z, and GTR.
On the time, trademark legal professional Mike Kondoudis mentioned the automotive model’s filings signaled plans for NFT-backed media, on-line NFT marketplaces, digital wallets, NFT minting, buying and selling and storing software program.
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Automotive big Basic Motors has additionally been very lively with NFT-related filings, with its newest trademark functions on Feb. 16 masking its Chevrolet and Cadillac manufacturers.
American automotive producer Ford Motor Firm, prepped its entry into the world of NFTs and the Metaverse final September, submitting 19 trademark functions throughout its main automotive manufacturers.
Regardless of the continuing crypto winter and bear market, multinational companies are nonetheless pushing ahead with trademark functions masking Web3, crypto, nonfungible tokens (NFTs), and the Metaverse.
Kondoudis mentioned that there have been report numbers of trademark functions for NFTs, Metaverse and crypto-related merchandise in 2022.
