2020: THE UNFORESEEN YEAR IS COMING TO AN END

As you might not be aware that livecoin.net was hacked and this took place over the night of Dec. 23-24.

The exchange posted on its site Christmas Eve that the service was subject to a “carefully planned attack” that it suggested may have been planned “over the last few months.”

We believe to be over 500 million dibcoins held/halted on livecoin exchange prior to their hack.

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COMPLAINT AND APPEAL FROM TRADEMARK TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD

Defendant has obtained cancellation of Plaintiff’s “Dibcoin Mark (Reg. No. 5396033) with weak documentation and testimony alleging that Plaintiff was not first to use the mark in commerce. Defendant alleged that Plaintiff created the Dibcoin mark under contract with Defendant and that Plaintiff failed to explain how he used the mark in commerce prior to Defendant’s alleged use of the mark (TTAB agreed). Additional evidence was later obtained and submitted into the record, but it was deemed late and not considered. That evidence makes it now abundantly apparent that Plaintiff was the first to use the Dibcoin Mark in commerce and is therefore the owner of the Dibcoin Mark. If this Appeal is not granted and Plaintiff does not obtain relief from the Decision, it will never be able to offer its evidence or litigate the underlying grant of the cancellation petition on the merits.

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