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

[Natasha Vita-More]

At 02:26 PM 11/1/2005, David wrote:
>Max wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>You don't have a registered federal trademark for ExI, while in fact 
>several other organizations do, including EXi Corp.
>
>For that matter, I see no registered federal trademarks owned by either 
>Extropy Institute or Max More.

An incorporation means that the name of a business is registered with the 
Secretary of State and legally "incorporated" with Articles of 
Incorporation.  When anyone files for a new business, he or she must check 
with the Secretary of State to make sure that the name is not already 
incorporated.  The Secretary of State's office very carefully checks all 
business names to make sure no one is using the name of another business to 
conduct the same or a similar business.  The law states that a person must 
determine the Availability of a Company Name. Search Name Availability to 
ensure that your newly formed corporation or business name is not already 
used by another business entity. The Name Availability search will help you 
avoid corporation name conflicts and ensure that your company name is 
distinct.

Branding is another form of producing and marketing a business name and 
product or service.  Once this has occurred, it is bad business practice to 
use a name that has already been branded.  In most cases, it is not done 
out of common sense and professional courtesy.  In other cases, some people 
may do this to produce a negative outcome and if it damages the original 
business in a way that affects its products, services and well being in the 
community, it can become a legal action and these are most often settled 
out of court wherein the infringing party coughs up a lot of money and 
backs off having lost good standing in the public eye and produced a lot of 
bad feelings and even enemies, which is not a smart business practice.


<http://www.natasha.cc/>Natasha <http://www.natasha.cc/>Vita-More
Cultural Strategist - Designer
Future Studies, University of Houston
President, <http://www.extropy.org/>Extropy Institute
Member, <http://www.profuturists.com/>Association of Professional Futurists
Founder, <http://www.transhumanist.biz/>Transhumanist Arts & Culture
Honorary Vice-Chair, <http://transhumanism.org/>World Transhumanist 
Association
Senior Associate, <http://foresight.org/>Foresight Institute
Advisor, <http://alcor.org/>Alcor Life Extension Foundation

If you draw a circle in the sand and study only what's inside the circle, 
then that is a closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the 
circle and everything outside the circle, then that is an open system 
perspective.
Buckminster Fuller


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