In the SEC trials closed for the general public, the Securities and US Securities and Exchange Commission) discovered an agreement signed on April 5, 2019, between the Ton Ventures LTD initiator to the Ton Labs and Telegram project. This document states that Ton Ventures Ltd receives an unexceptive right to use the Ton Blockchain brand owned by Pavel Durov.
The agreement states that Ton Ventures Ltd will not dispute the fact that the Ton brand belongs to Telegram.
As it became known to “tape.ru”, Ton Ventures Ltd violated the agreement with Telegram and registered the Ton trademark in the European Union. So, on October 20, 2020, the European Intellectual Property Bureau (EUIPO) registered Ton as a trademark in the categories of “advertising, business and retail services, insurance and financial services, communication, personal, legal and social services, computer products, electrical and scientific products “. The department of patents and trademarks of the United States was submitted to the Ton trademark on September 18, 2020. And now the Ton trading sign is registered in the category of “computer and software services and scientific services” and belongs to Ton Venture Studio Ltd.
Moreover, Ton Ventures Ltd not only registered a trademark, but now makes claims in its use by other members of the Ton community. So, on August 10, Ton Venture Studio Ltd complained Apple on a mobile wallet of one of the community members. The essence of the claim is that it violates the registered Ton and Ton Wallet brands. In their post in Telegram, “victims” pay attention to the fact that “the Ton blockchain came up and developed the Telegram team, while Ton Venture Studio LTD, which has nothing to do with Telegram, registered the project brand. And now he is trying to use it for a corporate war with the Ton network – the direct “heir” of the Durov brothers. “
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