‘Bitcoin’ Becomes Trademark in Russia to Prevent ‘Patent Trolls’
Following three unsuccessful attempts by various firms to register the “Bitcoin” trademark in Russia, the Russian patent agency, Rospatent has granted the request for LLC “Bitcoin” to Russian Blockchain.community founder, Alex Fork. Request No. 552645 to trademark the name “Bitcoin” has been granted in Russia, reported Russian media outlet Plusworld. The....
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In an attempt to patent the term ‘Bitcoin’ in Russia, a Moscow-based firm called M-Group filed an application at the Russian patent office. The application was duly rejected. Rospatent, the Russian patent agency has recently confirmed the rejection of an application by a Moscow-based firm which filed a patent request to trademark ‘Bitcoin.’ According to local publication Rapsinews, the firm, known as “M-Group” requested the patent agency to trademark the term bitcoin in relation to the 36th and the 38th International Classification of Goods and Services for Finance and Telecommunications,....
Alex Fork, an entrepreneur has managed to get the Bitcoin trademark registered in Russia. Bitcoin and Russia have had some tough times so far. The government is not interested in having bitcoin around, but they definitely want to explore the use of blockchain technology in banking and financial sector. However, ‘Bitcoin’ did get its date with the legal and regulatory system in the country after the ‘Bitcoin’ trademark was approved by the concerned trademark registration office. The number of bitcoin users in the Russian Federation is increasingly on a regular basis. But, at the same time,....
Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property has rejected an attempt by Moscow-based M-Groupp to trademark the word “Bitcoin” in the country. The patent agency, commonly known as Rospatent has confirmed the rejection of a request on behalf of “M-Groupp” to register “Bitcoin” as a trademark, reports Rapsinews. The company filed the request in....
VeChain Global Technology has petitioned for a patent with the U.S. federal agency Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Filed on April 22nd, 2021, the application seeks to register methods, devices, blockchain nodes, and a system for carbon recording and trading, per the document published by the agency. The patent has been attributed to Jianliang Gu, […]
The San Francisco-based Bitcoin services Company, Coinbase has filed applications with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The company has filled for nine Bitcoin-related applications with the US Patent and Trademark Office. Coinbase is filing for patents for the following applications: Hot wallet for holding Bitcoin. User Private Key Control. Bitcoin Private Key Splitting for Cold Storage. Instant Exchange. Personal Vault. Send Bitcoin to Email Address. Bitcoin Exchange. Tip Button. Off-Blockchain Transactions in combination with On-Blockchain transactions. And it seems that....