Facebook’s recent decision to change its name to Meta brought instant worldwide awareness to the term “Metaverse,” which refers to a virtual world in which we can explore, play, work, and create. The metaverse can also extend into the physical world using augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) technologies.

The metaverse could change the way industries like manufacturing, healthcare, education, travel and tourism, retail, and more function and will pave the way to develop countless products, services, and solutions in ways that we can’t yet imagine.

In this session, software patent attorney Robert Plotkin of Blueshift IP and Andrew Louder, CEO of Louder Co provided an introduction to the metaverse, discussed core technologies from blockchain to cryptocurrency to artificial intelligence that enable the metaverse, and explained how patents and patent law will be vital to promote innovation in this rapidly changing virtual world.

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Photo of Robert Plotkin Robert Plotkin
Founding Partner @Blueshift IP
Attorney Robert Plotkin has been a leader in obtaining software patents for two decades, and consistently obtains software patents for clients even after the Alice Supreme court decision stopped most companies from obtaining software patents. He uses his decades
Founding Partner @Blueshift IP
Attorney Robert Plotkin has been a leader in obtaining software patents for two decades, and consistently obtains software patents for clients even after the Alice Supreme court decision stopped most companies from obtaining software patents. He uses his decades of legal and engineering experience to maximize the value of his clients’ patent portfolios – allowing them to realize the largest return on investment even in the post-Alice world. His clients have profitably sold and licensed the software patents he has obtained for them to major corporations worldwide.