As a lawyer I can assure you that their claim is completely baseless.
"Hive" is a common english word and can't be trademarked, nor have they.
The Hive blockchain does not offer a competing service to these guys so they have no legal basis to complain.
Just ignore them.
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You ever considered the value of running for a witness as a lawyer? If you take steem for payment i would be happy to pay you for any of my american affairs as a Canadian.
Actually I have been thinking of offering legal type services for payment in Hive. I've created the account @hive.lawyer but have to work things out.
Did you make it oncthebsteem chain by accident?
Thanks for alerting me. I was using hive.invite to test it and forgot the final step of creating the account.
You just log in essentially same keys, I'll be following.
It would be so cool if I could just send you a private memo and give you the key so you could unencrypt my private details about any case matters we could use this all on the blockchain without needing cell phones or any utilities provided by the state.
You can already send encrypted memos on Hive. You can also post encrypted data to the blockchain. So this is already doable.
Zcash would allow for a higher level of privacy with the sheilded addresses.
I agree, they can't be going after every single one of them that I listed. The trademark may not be valid at all.
The issue is not the use of the single word "hive", rather it is the use of the combination of the words "hive" and "blockchain" with both entities using the Internet as their primary means of communicating with customers or users.
That is not the basis of any legal claim. They don't have a registered trademark and have no case for unregistered trademark infringement or passing off because the services they provide are completely different from those our HIVE blockchain provides.