No One Forced Me to Drop Bitcoin Trademark Application, Lawyer Says

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8 points·taylorbuley··5 comments

Mr "Pascazi" - refer to http://bit.ly/pEgrbE.

Notably 5.8 in this case - i'll keep a watch but if anyone notices a filing in Australia - let me know and i'm happy to write and object :) Also, incase this fool didn't realize - the evidence trail he is leaving across the web implying that he intends to use it in bad faith is well ... amateur at best.

Also - perhaps Pascazi needs to understand technology a bit more. Notably, learning how bitcoin works.

Let's Pascazi a lesson in law and take him ..... Puts on sunglasses ..... to bits .... YEEEAAAHHHHHHHHH

In case anyone else is mistrustful of shortened links, that one leads to a page entitled "Grounds for opposition to registration of national trade marks" on www.ipaustralia.gov.au

The name doesn't matter, the technology is what makes Bitcoin. We could change the name to BitBills and I don't think anyone would miss a beat, the work would move forward and those that matter would move along with it.

True, but that doesn't change the fact that it will be a total perversion of the fundamental purpose of trademark law if this guy can manage to register a name that other people are already using, whether or not they've registered it.

Trademark law is for helping you protect a business you're building, not to give you a way to steal from others who have already made a mark significant.

I hope this guy wastes a bunch of his own money and gets nowhere.

SO we can trademark the name pascazi?

Now that would be ironic

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