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At 02:26 PM 11/1/2005, David wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Max wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">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.</blockquote><br>
You don't have a registered federal trademark for ExI, while in fact
several other organizations do, including EXi Corp.<br><br>
For that matter, I see no registered federal trademarks owned by either
Extropy Institute or Max More.</blockquote><br>
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. <br><br>
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.<br><br>
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<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha
</a><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Vita-More</a>
<dd>Cultural Strategist - Designer
<dd>Future Studies, University of Houston
<dd>President, <a href="http://www.extropy.org/">Extropy Institute</a>
<dd>Member, <a href="http://www.profuturists.com/">Association of
Professional Futurists</a>
<dd>Founder, <a href="http://www.transhumanist.biz/">Transhumanist Arts
& Culture</a>
<dd>Honorary Vice-Chair, <a href="http://transhumanism.org/">World
Transhumanist Association</a>
<dd>Senior Associate, <a href="http://foresight.org/">Foresight
Institute</a>
<dd>Advisor, <a href="http://alcor.org/">Alcor Life Extension
Foundation</a><br><br>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>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.
</i>
<dd>Buckminster Fuller<br>
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