Japanese automotive model Nissan has grow to be the most recent 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 response to 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 Companies#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” protecting on-line video, photos, paintings, tickets, audio, sounds, music, and buying and selling playing cards, together with an internet site that has data on the whole lot about Nissan’s proposed NFTs and the way they are going to work.
There are additionally intentions for “non-downloadable pc software program to be used as a digital pockets,” based on 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, check drive, and buy Nissan automobiles,” whereas within the metaverse.
“On the identical time we’ll study the potential for new gross sales strategies for automobiles,” it wrote in a press release.
The trial, which runs from Mar. 8 to Jun. 30, will enable clients 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 by this digital gross sales workplace, based on 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 lawyer Mike Kondoudis stated 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 energetic with NFT-related filings, with its newest trademark functions on Feb. 16 protecting 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 continued crypto winter and bear market, multinational companies are nonetheless pushing ahead with trademark functions protecting Web3, crypto, nonfungible tokens (NFTs), and the Metaverse.
Kondoudis stated that there have been report numbers of trademark functions for NFTs, Metaverse and crypto-related merchandise in 2022.
