UltraPRO Responds to Doge Trademark Uproar
Recently, California-based trading card accessory company UltraPRO International filed for a trademark on the word "Doge," a move that flustered the Dogecoin community. The biggest fear was that by UltraPRO trademarking the word "Doge," Dogecoin's vendors would be at risk of being sued. Not only that, but Josh Wise, Dogecoin's sponsored NASCAR driver, may face a backlash for the Dogecar. Needless to say, the Dogecoin community has quite a bit to worry about. With that kind of power, UltraPRO could do serious damage to the Dogecoin economic infrastructure. UltraPRO responded to the Daily....
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A dispute over a California company’s attempt to trademark Doge has roiled the Internet into a fury of confusion and argument over the move’s implications for the popular Internet meme and its offshoots, such as Dogecoin. The controversy has led one of Dogecoin’s cofounders to leave the cryptocurrency community and another digital currency platform to file an opposition to the trademark application, but little new information about the future of Doge has come out as a result of the backlash. Though Ultra PRO, a California-based sports memorabilia company, announced its intention to....
Ultra Pro has made an announcement on the subject after the article was published. It can be read here. The Dogecoin community was introduced to some negative information recently when it was uncovered that Ultra Pro International, a case and sleeve company, announced plans to trademark the word "Doge." The move was met with outrage and confusion from the community, along with fear that it would affect merchants selling Doge-related products that accept Dogecoin. CCN. It all started when Twitter user Little Shibe uncovered a document stating that Ultra Pro was looking to file for a....
Happy Sunday, and welcome back to another Bitcoin News in Review, your source for some of the biggest cryptocurrency news of the week. There was a lot of Dogecoin news this week, from the coin's creator leaving the community to a company filing for a trademark on the word "Doge". We also covered some new mining gear, a cryptocurrency-based video game, and more. Check out this Bitcoin News in Review after the break. Dogecoin Troubles. Sad shibe. Just under a week ago, the Dogecoin community found out that a company called Ultra PRO International had announced plans to trademark the word....
A man from London is attempting to trademark the word "Bitcoin" in the United Kingdom. In an application made to the UK's patent office on 5th November, Marvin Dennis of Leyton, East London, is seeking to trademark the term used by Satoshi Nakamoto to describe his cryptocurrency. Published by the Trade Marks Journal on 4th December, the application for the trademark is due to be granted on 6th February 2014 if unopposed. The trademark regards the use of the term with relation to "chocolates and confectionary", so wouldn't have a direct impact on bitcoin's use in the areas of computing or....
A prominent financial services institution has jumped on the cryptocurrency trademark bandwagon, filing fresh trademark rights for virtual worlds, nonfungible tokens, and more. Mastercard has filed 15 trademark applications for its brand name, the tagline “Priceless,” and its circles logo, all of which allude to metaverse and NFT objectives. This is a significant step for […]