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Re: Will Monero have to rebrand because of the cease and desist notification?
by
celestio
on 13/06/2015, 20:05:02 UTC
"Moneero" is registered in a small South American country  and has no ties to "Monero" which stands for a decentralized currency. They are words in different languages, presumably, so this c n d is worthless. I believe it's all lies/fud regardless.

Doesn't matter if the words are spelled differently.  The two names are similar and fall under the same Goods and Services category.

It's like if I were to open a hamburger restaurant, and name it "Whendees"

Something interesting I saw here: http://www.coindesk.com/mt-gox-sell-bitcoin-trademark-buyer-enforce/

"Saper suggested that Tibanne was granted the bitcoin trademark because at the time, the digital currency was not well known among government officials and regulators. As a result, it’s possible that the company acquired the trademark simply because whoever approved it didn’t know that bitcoin was a generic term, she said, explaining:"

"First, because Tibanne was not the originator of the term, anyone who subsequently purchases it would have to prove that the word hadn’t entered general usage prior to time the trademark was first acquired. The word first appeared in 2009 in Satoshi Nakamoto’s original white paper."

-The word "Monero" has been around a lot longer than when "Moneero" got trademarked in 2013 and seems generic enough considering it means "coin" in the Esperanto language, so goodluck with the fake C & D. (Not much into law, just pointing it out).