Dogecoin Foundation registers name and logos as trademarked within in the EU

The $DOGE/BTC(DOGEBTC.CC)$ Foundation announced on Twitter on Wednesday that it had registered “Doge,” “Dogecoin” and its associated logos as trademarks in the European Union. The certificate displayed in the tweet was dated Jan. 13, 2022.

Foundation executive board member Jens Wiechers said in the tweet thread that “The issue isn‘t (and has never been) use in memes, etc, but attempts by people completely unaffiliated with Dogecoin to register them, which only really makes sense if they want to then extort either the community or the Dogecoin project, devs, foundation, etc. directly.”

Since , the $Dogecoin(DOGE.CC)$ Foundation has faced numerous issues with the due to the fact that the foundation did not seek trademark protection at the time of its creation in 2014. As of September in the United States, the foundation’s application at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office was with “half a dozen” others. “At least 100” cryptocurrencies not to the Dogecoin Foundation were using the Dogecoin name.