Topic: The PASCAZI Retaliation, fighting opportunists worldwide and why we applied for - page 3. (Read 4269 times)

Thanx for the link.
I'm no native speaker and I don't understand what exactly "License should be valid on successors and assigns." means but I read it as "successors of today's MtGox owners may use the IP titles however they please." Anyway I would feel best if the IP stuff would be handed over to some non profit organisation. If Gox runs bankrupt they can't decide about their IP anymore so better give it to some other entity before.

And please, I'm not ranting about how you handle stuff. I'm happy you stepped up for bitcoin and have full trust in MtGox' best intents. In the end I guess even having to switch to TibCoin or any other name would not really harm the project. Screw those IP fraudsters.

License should be valid on successors and assigns.
Here is link to press release. https://mtgox.com/press_release_20111014.html

Hi

I have two concerns:
What if MtGox ownership changes? I would like to see the name BitCoin be released to the public domain so any later owner of MtGox will have a problem changing that policy.

(The OP has 8 posts. Who is it? I couldn't find a press releases section on MtGox.com. Would be happy to see it there, too.)

MtGox's press release says:

". . . [A]ll trademarks related to the term “Bitcoin” filed for and obtained by Tibanne K.K will be made freely available to anyone to use for whatever purpose whatsoever, whether that be for non-profit or commercial endeavours."

This ain't worth a sh^t without an enforceable trademark license. These are big boys with lots of cash, and lawyers around the world. Where is the license for us all?

Where is MtGox's free & open trademark license? They have trademark apps pending around the world. Post your license here MtGox for the world to see.  A PGP sign of a hashed PDF is not good enough. No jury will understand that when it comes time to enforce. Your lawyers know better too. Post a free (make it US$1 or 1€ or 100¥, or 0.3BTC, so it's a legal contract), unlimited, & perpetual license, for each of us to fill in our name, sign, and return with our token payment. What are you waiting for?

If MtGox will notarize and publish the press release stating that it formally intends to freely license the Bitcoin trademark for the usage we all expect it to mean, then I won't have a problem with them having that sort of trademark.  And then PGP sign the hash of the PDF file they publish of the document.

  Will you have my babies?! ;p  Love the idea, especially since it is very close to what I was trying to poke the community to do back in the original Pascuzzy thread...

I know some are skeptical of MtGox's motives - many don't like that MtGox is trying to register trademarks.

However, I REALLY appreciate them stepping up and paying the money to do this. It is a huge service to the community to have MtGox willing to spend some of their profits on these types of fights. Kudos to them.

And to anyone who is suspicious - consider that if MtGox ever tried to corner the market by using its Bitcoin trademarks in a detrimental way, the community would drop them like a stone. It would be fully against MtGox's self-interest to so clearly abandon the trust of its userbase.

So, MtGox - thank you for fighting the good fight and good luck with these efforts.

Go mtgox! Stop them!

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TOKYO, JAPAN - October 14, 2011 - As the owner of the largest Bitcoin trading platform, Mt.Gox, we at Tibanne K.K feel obliged to step up and oppose opportunists around the world from trademarking the concept and term “Bitcoin”, which would severely limit the ability of those in the Bitcoin community to freely enjoy and use our beloved Crypto-currency.

As some in the community may be aware, back in July Michael Pascazi, a law attorney in upstate New York started to file for ownership of the Bitcoin trademark. This took place not only in the US but in other key countries like France and Japan where trademark laws favour the party who is “first-to-file”, rather than the first actual user of the term.

While Michael Pascazi apparently acquiesced in his attempt to trademark Bitcoin in the U.S. (thanks to a stricter “first-to-use” trademarking system), he has since submitted a claim in France through his wife Celine Mouchon Pascazi, where Pascazi has far stronger legal standing as the first entity to apply.

In reaction, we at Tibanne K.K in Japan have started legal proceedings in the hopes of opposing this filing in France, at a European level as well as in in other countries across the world.

The Pascazis' stated intention is to profit from these trademarks, which would hamper Bitcoin enthusiasts, businesses and the community as a whole on a global basis in the free use and promotion of Bitcoin. Tibanne K.K will oppose this and any other "greed based" trademark application, in order to prevent self-serving attempts to profit from Bitcoin through spurious legal suits, and keep the term “Bitcoin” free for all.

We would like to use this opportunity to formally announce that all trademarks related to the term “Bitcoin” filed for and obtained by Tibanne K.K will be made freely available to anyone to use for whatever purpose whatsoever, whether that be for non-profit or commercial endeavours.

We will keep you apprised on these matters as soon as updates become available.

Regards
Mt.Gox Co. Ltd Team.

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