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Re: Trademarking CypherSpace???
At 06:52 PM 10/5/97 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
>Sigh. A company called I-Planet is trying to trademark the term
>"Cypherspace", even though we've been using it for a couple of years
>in the cypherpunk community.
All this fuss is really not such a big deal, as long as the Patent and
Trademark Office <http://www.uspto.gov> hears about it. I know nothing
about trademark procedure, but I imagine that a letter (or three) to the
PTO referencing the right application number on it could scotch an
application but quick. Printing out email and adding a stamp seems almost
sufficient.
Maybe the nice folks at i-planet (I know you're getting this) could just
post their application number and save us the trouble of finding it ourselves?
And I checked: The fee for a formal _ex parte_ appeal filing is only $100.
I'm sure the i-planet lawyers will spend far more than that defending one
of those.
Eric