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By Blake Brittain (Reuters) – French luxury house Hermes International has asked a Manhattan federal court to block artist Mason Rothschild from promoting or owning his “MetaBirkin” non-fungible tokens after a jury found they violate Hermes’ trademark rights in its famous Birkin bags. Hermes said in a court filing Friday that Rothschild has continued to market his NFTs despite the jury’s verdict last month. It asked the court to force him to stop using “Birkin” trademarks and to transfer the MetaBirkins website, the NFTs that he still owns and his income from sales of the tokens since the tria…