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Chia Network and blog owner thechiaplot.net argue about trademark

Chia Network has asked journalist Chris Dupres, founder of thechiaplot.net, to discontinue the use of the company’s name for his blog (2 weeks old) because it violates trademark law. Dupres’s attorney Paul Alan Levy responded with a letter on June 2 to Chia Network’s Head of IP Belle Borovik, insisting that the blog name was not misleading.

On May 25, the project sent a letter to Dupres outlining their concerns over the use of the name “Chia”. Below is the correspondence so far regarding this issue.

“Still, it is important to Chia Network to protect its trademarks. Unauthorized use of Chia Network’s registered CHIA mark, or iits logos exposes community members to potential scammers, misleading and confusing them. Therefore, it is essential that all users of the CHIA marks, logos, or the Chia Network name obtain a royalty free permission to use the CHIA marks. Simply put, you may not continue using the CHIA mark in your domain name, <thechiaplot.net,> or anywhere, without securing a written permission from Chia Network.”

Head of IP

The project subsequently asked Dupres to respond, which he did via Levy, stating he would not back down from the use of the name.

“Just how gullible do you expect your customers to be?” wrote Levy in the letter, which was linked to a Dupres’ blog post. “I daresay that even the proverbial moron in a hurry would be able to recognize, immediately upon visiting The Chia Plot, that this is a website devoted to journalism about your company rather than being sponsored by your company.”

Source: thechiaplot

“I am hopeful this helps them see the error of their ways and that threatening your community is not the way towards a sustainable future with Chia,” Chris Dupres said, added;

You seem to have a very distorted idea of how trademark protection works. You do not, and will not own the word “chia”.

I will not be changing the name. You also have no leg to stand on to make anyone change their name unless they are developing a competing cryptocurrency using your registered marks. Which I couldn’t find by the way, an you please send me your registration numbers, and classes of protection.

For an open source project to be threating blogs with trademark protection, this is not a good look. You should seriously reconsider your plans for trademark protection and stop threatening people.

Founded in August 2017, Chia Network is a blockchain and smart transaction platform created by Bram Cohen, the inventor of the BitTorrent.

Rather than the energy-intensive Proof of Work (PoW) algorithm that Bitcoin and other blockchains use to process transactions and mine coins, Chia is a storage-based protocol running a “Proof of Space and Time” (POST) algorithm that uses unallocated disk space. The chia token is the native cryptocurrency that runs on the blockchain.

Update: r/chia subreddit removes posts about Chia Networks legal attacks, according to Dupres, the reason is at least one of the subreddit moderators is or was a Chia Networks employee.

Source: thechiaplot

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