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