Flamers force lawyer to drop application for Bitcoin trademark
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Re: Flamers force lawyer to drop application for Bitcoin trademark
#2I like how he equates filing for IP ownership on something that was obviously developed by others with a gainful venture under capitalism.
Re: Flamers force lawyer to drop application for Bitcoin trademark
#3Trademarks aren't like patents or copyrights, there isn't a strong presumption of validity attached. Even if he should manage to get one he shouldn't be able to much beyond send threatening letters (at least in the US).
Re: Flamers force lawyer to drop application for Bitcoin trademark
#4I like how he equates filing for IP ownership on something that was obviously developed by others with a gainful venture under capitalism.
I think it's fair to call it capitalism--he's obviously capitalizing. What's debatable is how conscionable that is.
He would have done better to go to someone in the Bitcoin community and offer his services. Someone should own the trademark to protect it. Lots of cc and open source stuff has registered trademarks so the name can't be abused.
Re: Flamers force lawyer to drop application for Bitcoin trademark
#5Uh, would this paper count as "strong compelling evidence"?
Re: Flamers force lawyer to drop application for Bitcoin trademark
#6the problem is he used a Lawyer License form the USA to file a US trademark which he knew at the time contained some false statements as he was fully aware of the prior art of the trademark being claimed..
anyone know what state he was licensed in?
Re: Flamers force lawyer to drop application for Bitcoin trademark
#7Uh, would this paper count as "strong compelling evidence"? http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
To serve as evidence, its date of publication would have to be established with reasonable reliability. For a fee, The Wayback Machine will provide an affidavit confirming that Document X was archived on their servers as of a given date.[1]
Re: Flamers force lawyer to drop application for Bitcoin trademark
#8This reminds me of the asshole who tried to trademark Linux back in the day. Jerks like these have always existed.
Re: Flamers force lawyer to drop application for Bitcoin trademark
#9I like how he equates filing for IP ownership on something that was obviously developed by others with a gainful venture under capitalism.
I think it's fair to call it capitalism--he's obviously capitalizing. What's debatable is how conscionable that is. He would have done better to go to someone in the Bitcoin community and offer his services. Someone should own the trademark to protect it. Lots of cc and open source stuff has registered trademarks so the name can't be abused.
Capitalism as an economic system means more than just that "people capitalize". It encompasses things like competitive free markets and legal systems to enforce contracts and discourage fraud.
Filing for IP protections on something that is not by any stretch of the imagination your own IP sounds to me like some combination of fraud and perjury.
Re: Flamers force lawyer to drop application for Bitcoin trademark
#10Uh, would this paper count as "strong compelling evidence"? http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
No. Trademarks are to protect the use of marks used in commerce. That paper doesn't provide any evidence of the use of the term in commerce.