[extropy-chat] Extropic Freedom and the Fate of Dissidents

[Max More]

At 08:26 PM 10/31/2005, you wrote:

>I certainly welcome peaceable relations and courtesy within our 
>community but neither Max nor Extropy Institute had or have any 
>legally enforceable rights to "ExI".

I disagree, and we *have* had advice from an IP attorney.

>The reasons are many, but you can sanity-check this with a simple 
>trademark search --
>
>http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=english&p_d=trmk

How does that prove your claim? You think that because several 
businesses have or are using "EXI' that we have no rights to ExI? 
That's mistaken. No one else that I checked is using it in a context 
that is likely to cause confusion with our organization. There are 
numerous companies called "Oracle", but you can bet that Larry 
Ellison would sue and win if another database company -- even another 
software company -- used that name.

Max


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Strategic Philosopher
Chairman, Extropy Institute. http://www.extropy.org
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