The 90 days notice period ends before the anticipated activation of NU6.
We request that you publicly commit to either:
use the trademark solely to protect against its misuse by scammers or clear abusers of the mark and not use it to attempt to govern the direction of the protocol,
or to relinquish the trademark completely.
This also reflects the will of the broader Zcash community as evidenced in recent community polling.
If ZF retains ownership of the mark, termination of the trademark agreement will revoke all ECC trademark rights. We request an ongoing limited license to continue providing community services, such as maintaining the z.cash website and managing the Zcash X account, unless or until another owner or solution is found.
With 26 reactions to @joshs post so far, I can’t imagine it’s being ignored! Personally I am watching attentively, because there’s not much else I can do here.
The ZF Board is considering options and taking advice on how the trademark should be managed going forward. It’s an important decision, and we don’t intend to rush it.
For the time being, there’s be no major changes. We’ll continue to maintain and protect the trademark, take down scammers and fraudsters, etc. ECC will continue to maintain key properties like the @Zcash twitter handle and the z.cash website.
Taking into account what @Dodger has just said, he should have been able to express something along those lines a long long time ago:
“While ZF is considering whether or not to relinquish the trademark completely, we commit to use the trademark solely to protect against its misuse by scammers or clear abusers of the mark and not use it to attempt to govern the direction of the protocol.”
See it now @Autotunafish ? Rather odds not to be able to say this don’t you think? I can see how the word “alarming” comes to mind.
This is the complete second iteration of the trademark debacle (I believe someone has a tshirt). I don’t really pretend to understand it completely now, nor then.
