From: Eric Hughes <eric@sac.net>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 04:53:57 +0800
To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Trademarking CypherSpace???
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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