One can't trademark "mart". If you wanted to call your coin "mart" coin or "socks" coin or "television" coin, you are free as a bird to do so. But, if you call your coin "Sony" coin to sell televisions on the blockchain, then you are in trouble.
How is this so difficult to understand?
If what you say above is true can you please tell me if name "Craig" can be trademarked, because if it can I feel sorry for all the Craigs out there. My English probably need much more work, but I fail to see logic. Since when names can be trademerked? And how Name+common work combination suddenly violates law? I'm a man of science - I like direct laws and rules - please help me here - provide the pattern - what is wrong with CraigsCoin name except it reminds you of other similar service?
I will ask you once again - please please provide something from actual law. Can you do that? It is that simple - as soon as you find anything that stand legally against CraigsCoin name - I will run like a madman to change the coin name before ICO ended! Why would you fill thread with your assumptions instead of contributing to make things better? I certainly do not want to violate law, but if CraigsCoin name does not violate copyrights I'm fine using it.
Look, I don't know how else to explain it. Once Henry Ford named his car company "Ford", and trademarked it, no one else is allowed to sell cars called "Ford" even if that happens to be the name of the guy wanting to do it. However, anyone named Ford (or not named Ford) can call his furniture store "Ford" or his T-shirt company "Ford" or any other product one can think of.
Anyone with even a vague awareness of the law knows this. I am not going to dig up copyright laws and cases to spoon feed you. Don't they have search engines in Russia?
But, like I said it doesn't matter, because it is so effing obvious. If I started selling cell phones and called them "Apple" products, it would be illegal. If it wasn't then every time a company was successful, others would just use their name to sell their products. Again, how is this so confounding to you?!!!
Finally, why are you relying on your investors to talk with an attorney (or to search Google). You're raising all of this BTC and you can't pick up the phone and ask an attorney yourself?
This is first reasonable thing you told:
Look, I don't know how else to explain it.
We just not on the same ground here. I'm not actually selling anything at the first place. Again using your own words my prodict do not called "Ford" - its called "FoCoin". Can Ford sue me for using "Fo" letters off his trademark? Again Its Not CraigsListCoin - its CraigsCoin. Im doing something that Craigs does, not CraigsList. To elaborate further - this is exactly why Apple trademarked AppStore - because if they didnt someone else could freeley use is to sell mobile Apps. CraigsList never trademarked CraigsCoin.
Finally, why are you relying on your investors to talk with an attorney (or to search Google). You're raising all of this BTC and you can't pick up the phone and ask an attorney yourself?
Actually I did my research - and found nothing that proves your point. However I may be wrong, and therefore asking you to correct me if I am.
But up to this point you only sound like someone whos fear based on ignorant assumptions. Please don't take it too personal - there is alot of people who live their life taking things that does not exist for a fact.
However since you say:
I am not going to dig up copyright laws and cases
I have to just dismiss your point since obviously I done better research of legal framework that you ever bothered to do.
Thank you for your interest in CraigsCoin and good luck.
For god sake when people will learn that developer of decentralized currency does not actually own that currency?