Quote from: Dansker on May 17, 2012, 06:55:55 PM

Trade Mark No.   Mark Text   File Date   Status   Nice Classes   Vienna Classes   Image   Picking List
E10103646    BITCOIN    07/07/2011    Registered    09 35 38 42        No image exists for Trade Mark E10103646.
E10050466    bit coin    15/06/2011    Registered    09 38 41        Image for Trade Mark E10050466.

One is a word mark, one has an (ugly) picture.

Both registered to Tribanne:

Applicant:
Tibanne Co. Ltd.
Cerulean Tower 15F 26-1 Sakuragaoka-Cho, Shibuya Tokyo, Japan, 150-8512
Representative:
BAKER & MCKENZIE LLP
100 New Bridge Street, London, United Kingdom, EC4V 6JA

Is this news, or were you all familiar with the word "bitcoin" now being the intellectual property of Tribanne Co. Ltd. (Mt. Gox etc.) ?

This is a news to me before now am never aware of bitcoin being register entity in the UK that is to say bitcoin is a legal entity then why then there is all this saying that bitcoin is illegal and unacceptable as a legal tender in this country?