Re: #E-CASH: PRODUCT OR SERVICE?
At 20:19 7/16/96, Stig wrote:
Perhaps this has already been voiced on the main list (I get a filtered helping or two of cypherpunks), but *I'm* surprised that such a generic name as 'Ecash' was granted trademark status anywhere.
It's like giving Microsoft a trademark on the term 'Email'... It's nuts! Was the term ecash not in use before DigiCash showed up on the scene?
No that I am aware of. Furthermore, to the best of my knowledge, DigiCash's Ecash is the only ecash that I am aware of. The other "ecashs" lack various properties of cash, as previously explained by Bryce. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. Defeat the Demopublican Unity Party. Vote no on Clinton/Dole in November. Vote Harry Browne for President.
Lucky Green writes: : Furthermore, to the best of my knowledge, DigiCash's : Ecash is the only ecash that I am aware of. The other "ecashs" lack various : properties of cash, as previously explained by Bryce. This pretty well proves that ``ecash'' is a generic term--even though if it is correct the genus at the moment includes only one element--and thus that the trademark ``Ecash''--if that is what the trademark is--is awfully weak. -- Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH Internet: junger@pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu
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