Just curious are you proceeding ahead or still muck and mire / held up? I have not really seen nor heard anything. Reid Jackson wrote: > G&SR/OmniPay challenges American Express' "Platinum-Colored Card" > > Melbourne, Florida, 11 October 2000 > > G&SR/OmniPay ( www.omnipay.net ) announced today it will not abandon its > trademark application for The Real Platinum Card™, despite demands from > American Express, owners of the mark "Platinum Card®". American Express, > threatening legal action under the federal Lanham Act, objects that use of > the mark "may imply to consumers that your card is "real" while American > Express' "Platinum Card" is not." > > "A basic purpose of the Lanham Act is to protect consumers against the > likelihood of confusion or mistake in terms of the source of goods or > services… It would appear that American Express' objection is more a concern > that consumers will recognize a difference between the G&SR mark and > American Express' marks" relates James F. McKeown, of Evenson, McKeown, > Edwards, and Lenahan, P.L.L.C., a prominent Washington, D.C. patent and > trademark attorney spearheading the campaign for G&SR. "The idea that > someone might doubt whether the American Express Platinum Card is a real > card is farfetched. It couldn't be more obvious that the term "real" in the > G&SR mark refers to "platinum" because the services are in fact based on > platinum-backed electronic currencies." > > The initial release of The Real Platinum Card, scheduled for Q1 2001, will > function as a debit card, enabling cardholders to fund purchases and cash > advances from their e-platinum™ account while the recipient receives payment > in their currency of choice. e-platinum is a privately issued worldwide > electronic currency, 100% backed by platinum, that enables users to use > platinum as money over the internet. e-platinum is one of a group of four > precious metal-backed electronic currencies issued by e-gold Ltd., a Nevis > Corporation, www.e-gold.com. G&SR/OmniPay is also working with Standard > Reserve™ to issue The Real Gold Card™, a debit card connected to Standard > Reserve AUG (grams of gold), a new electronic currency convertible gram for > gram into e-gold®. The Real Gold Card is slated for public release at the > upcoming Indian River Summit 18-20 October in Melbourne, Florida. > > G&SR, Inc. was the original developer of e-gold, e-silver®, e-platinum, and > e-palladium™. G&SR's new OmniPay service functions as a hybrid payment > system enabling Users holding any of the e-metal®s to pay recipients who > accept only national currencies. > > Douglas Jackson, MD, founder and Chairman of G&SR/OmniPay explains "The > point of using the mark "The Real Platinum Card" is precisely to distinguish > it from American Express, whose so-called "Platinum Card" has nothing > whatsoever to do with platinum. For us platinum is a metal, not a mere > marketing metaphor. Perhaps to avoid misleading the public American Express > could call their plastic the "Platinum-Colored Card". --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
