[87780] in Cypherpunks
Re: Trademarking CypherSpace???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Hughes)
Mon Oct 6 17:34:22 1997
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 13:25:14 -0700
To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
From: Eric Hughes <eric@sac.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, marcom@i-planet.com, kfong@ix.netcom.com,
gbroiles@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971005185236.00688c68@popd.ix.netcom.com>
Reply-To: Eric Hughes <eric@sac.net>
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
