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LETTER TO INTL. COURT OF JUSTICE WITH REGARD TO iMESSENGER TRADEMARK & OTHER EFFORTS OF OUR ORGANIZATION - To be cont'd
We
don't believe that justice would be served in this area, if the
companies involved are as big as the GDP of the most of the countries.
For that reason, we are seeking the services of the International Court
of Justice to address Intellectual Property issues around the globe to
bring balance and to counter huge companies that are becoming bigger and
bigger, supported by corrupt politicians holding office at the helm,
and are further supported by ever expanding, unaccountable financial
institutions.
The
whole reason for the creation of UN and the entire gamut of governing
bodies around the UN was to bring order from the lessons learnt based on the
previous two WWs. However, considering the worldly happenings, it is
becoming more and more concerning that these governing bodies themselves
are making the institutions and organizations that have become powerful
to become even more powerful. When this happens, those with resources could easily exploit various avenues to bend the rules to
their whims and fancies. For example, a company whose mark, IMESSAGE, is
considered descriptive for the reason that IMESSAGE could mean Internet
message by one of the country's IPO unit is overturned as an acquired
distinct mark in the courts. Whereas, a mark, IMESSENGER, that was
approved twice prior as a creative word mark gets categorized as a
descriptive mark, which could cause confusion. I guess this whole
practice of bringing subjectivity in a legal system that has been in
place for centuries now defeats the whole purpose of stare decisis and
the refining of the legal system over time. Moreover, even with the
advent of technology, which enables to manage better historical accounts
and records, it is disheartening to see such questionable practices
continuing to persist.
This
is not only with the marks; a controlling and powerful platform
provider could have arbitrary and questionable practices to sideline
apps, users and those who don't align with their plan of action with
inconsistent and arbitrary rule systems, along with other hidden actions
in this intertwined and interconnected IoT world.
In
the same way, financial institutions, which are nothing but
middle-(wo)men, who are funded by the central governments with their own
ability to print money to their own fancies with not much
accountability, can easily make over-extended bets causing financial
crises on a regular basis, with such crisis becoming almost a five-year
repetitive plan at somewhere or the other in the world. Such actions,
while impacting the livelihood of many households appear to result in
magnification of compensation for the senior executives, who are making
such bets. Even more so, when the average career span for common masses
coming down, the senior executives at the helm remain there for ever.
What is the significance of such a trivial topic?
It
is not a trivial topic any more. When the world's economy at least on
paper is controlled by the valuation of social media platform providers,
and other such internet related companies, supported by ever-expanding
financial institutions and corrupt politicians, we can rest assured that this matter is not
trivial any more as this ecosystem account for trillions of dollars in
valuation, while impacting livelihood of billions of people.
References:
1.
https://ip-talk.com/2019/04/05/imessage-cautionary-tale-of-an-allusive-trademark/?lang=en
- France rejects iMessage as a descriptive mark