There is indeed a big elephant in the room.
Blockchain Luxembourg S.A. (BL) filed a lawsuit (pdf) in September claiming that Paymium’s use of Blockchain.io infringed BL’s “Blockchain” trademark.
BL even suggested “Except for two letters, Paymium’s URL www.blockchain.io is identical to Blockchain’s URL www.blockchain.info.” Indeed, many top level domains are just a couple of letters off from each other, but that doesn’t give the owner of a second level domain in one extension the right to the same domain in another extension.
In its Motion to Dismiss, Paymium writes:
The deference standards of Twombly and Iqbal do not obscure the elephant in the room – this lawsuit is an improper grab at trademark exclusivity in the word BLOCKCHAIN, perhaps
the hottest technology buzzword on the planet. While Plaintiffs were prescient and resourceful enough to obtain the domain names blockchain.com and blockchain.info, they may not properly leverage that foresight into an anti-competitive and unearned monopoly in the term.
BL filed an amended complaint earlier this month.
When it’s all over the only difference will be that the lawyers, got lots more money in their pocket. Their trademark seems to have a disclaimer that they don’t own a trademark for the word “BLOCKCHAIN” and just has a design trademark that “consists of a diamond shape made up of differently shaded smaller shapes”
When .COM fights to take .nTLD I think times are changing. Interesting to watch this play out.
It isn’t an ntld, it is a very old country code like .ws, .tv, .cc. Popular at the moment but not “new”.
Blockchain.io is DAVID and blockchain.com is goliath and we all know how that played out. Owning the .com doesn’t make you the king.
Blockchain.io is built out with a live Crypto Exchange to set buy/sell Limit and Market orders on ETH/BTC and LTC/BTC pairs.
Blockchain.com/.info in 2017 was just a free cold-wallet for storing BTC. Not much has changed since except it may be a multiwallet now where BTC, ETH can be stored, and it looks like they’ll throw some free XLM (Stellar). This multiwallet may also involve a ShapeShift-Type plug-in that facilitates fee-based conversions. The ability to convert $100 of ETH to $80 of BTC because of a $20 fee doesn’t make it a live Exchange.
Blockchain.io though far advanced in it’s development, doesn’t mean it’s more ambitious. Blockchain.com has enough technology to make your money disappear just as fast as Blockchain.io
If anything, Paymium’s Motion says Blockchain.io would never think of UDRP’ing Blockchain.com for being just a lame multiwallet in contrast to the.io’s advanced Exchange engine.
Hope this doesn’t happen with Blockchain.link.
Sorry but .link is the same as .horse it’s just terrible.
What sort of price value is blockchain.io…..5 figures?
either way my blockchain wallet still says GENESIS OF BITCOIN… I automatically synced to the blockchain as the MAIN CHAIN & i automatically synced to etherscan . io as the CONTRACT SOURCE CODE VERIFIED ✔ EXACT MATCH
EXPLAIN THAT!
AND IF YOU TRY COMING UP WITH SOME FAKE ASS EXPLANATION, I’LL KNOW FIRST HAND IF YOU ARE LYING OR NOT AND ILL FIND OUT EXACTLY WHO YOU ARE! BECAUSE AS SOON AS YOU START TALKING, YOU’RE GOING TO IMMEDIATELY EXPOSE YOURSELF RIGHT AWAY… REMEMBER THAT!! YOU STILL GOTTA WORRY ABOUT ME!!
#ORIGINAL #BLOCK0 #MAINCHAIN #GENESIS #INDIVIDUAL1 #ALLTHEABOVE
SO I SUGGEST YOU GIVE UP AHEAD OF TIME!
SHUT UP JAGOFF!!!
I dont see why they will be taking someone to court over their own property. Why would have acquired the domain name before them. I love to see hoe this will end its like me owing a copy right to jac9ja.ng and soneone else gets jac9ja.com ots my bad if I dont also get the other domain and do a permanent redirect
The actions and attitude behind those associated with the .com and .info are truly DISGUSTING.
Dismissal granted.
It’s so outrageous that defendant should look into suing for abuse of process or the relevant equivalent. And I don’t even like .io.
I do hope they have not trademarked, quote;
” The deference standards of Twombly and Iqbal do not obscure the elephant in the room – this lawsuit is an improper grab at trademark exclusivity in the word BLOCKCHAIN, perhaps the hottest technology buzzword on the planet. While Plaintiffs were prescient and resourceful enough to obtain the domain names blockchain.com and blockchain.info, they may not properly leverage that foresight into an anti-competitive and unearned monopoly in the term.”
Because I think that will fit very well in my next Defence ,or Court proceeding.
Strange the discrepancy between Clause 42 and 47 of the Writ. Former seems to say the .io owner DID use the domain, then at 47 it seems to say it didn’t . DOH ! Please someone correct me if I am wrong.
42. On information and belief, since 2011, Paymium has been in the business of offering various cryptocurrency services, including cryptocurrency exchanges branded as PAYMIUM and BITCOIN CENTRAL. Paymium also owned the now defunct mobile wallets
branded PAYTUNIA and INSTAWALLET.
AND THEN
47. Prior to February 2018, Paymium did not use the blockchain.io domain or the trademark BLOCKCHAIN.IO for any goods or services.
I think it’s other businesses were run on a different domain name.
Any news on this case?
Still going on. Lots of filings but nothing to write about yet.
The most normal thing would have been that he had bought all the domain extensions, and only Blockchain.com and info.