those who breed only designer species they did not develop themselves are not doing the industry, the hobby or the advancement of breeding one bit of good.In fact it's harmful. They are taking money from the research and development of larger hatcheries and academics that are far more likely to get new species to market. The money a hatchery may make, and it isn't all that lucrative, is vital to buying equipment, building hatcheries and paying biologists who will noy only breed new species, but will also get them to market. That's the only thing that counts.
rrcg50 wrote:i was the first to make the mistake of calling my fish the snocassos.i started breeding them several months before the patent, at the time i did not know. my parents were actually brought from doni as snowcassos(tm). the name patent only pertains to the exact name. if someone want to be a idiot then they can call there fish snocassos and there is not a thing that can be done unless she trade marks that name.
i plan on breeding my pair of snowcassos(that were purchased from doni) and calling them something different. truthfully the clowns that are being offered as such recently to us here in the states would not of been snowcassos(tm) 2 plus years ago.
i speak to a few breeders on a weekly basis and some people on this site own my fish, i take great pride in what i have accomplished but do not want to stop there. ultimately we all want to be able to put less stress on the oceans buy aquaculturing as many species as we can. i am currently working on several strains of gobies and wrasses. will i ever be successful,who knows? will i go after someone who sells one of my Bad *A-- clowns offspring? no because the best advertisement is word of mouth. i want that name on everyones tongue. i think it was poor form to name a fish that came from another breeding house and try to call it your own. i think ora, tmz, sa, and c-quest had the right idea. get it out there and get it out there first, people will follow because of word of mouth. rods onyx have no problem selling and hes been doing this for years.
rrcg50 wrote:a respondant said , which was i, that i have snocassos, not snowcassos(tm) please read before the accusations become apparent.
woodstock wrote:I understand one letter was removed and to help explain the problem, please read about TM infringement.
http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/jom/ma ... -9610.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_infringement
Please PM me with any questions.
DeAngelr wrote:So call it Snocasso instead of Snowcasso... and your all set?
Suzy wrote:So, how would this work with our cultures? I have grown rotifers bought from who knows where years ago. Obviously, I can sell those. But, can I sell other things if I use their Latin name, and not the trademark name?
vrado wrote:If people want to see aquaculture one day replace wild caught, as I do, we should all buy the brands that will lead us to that future.
jeff@zina.com wrote:Extreme white patches in Picasso-style clowns appear in the offspring of many breeders, there is only one Snowcasso. Trade marks (or Trade Names) also protect for confusion among similar products. It would normally be fine to produce Snowcasso Tennis Rackets. No one will confuse them as clown fish. It would not be okay to produce Snocasso, Snowkasso or Snorecasso clown fish since they could easily be mistaken as a Snocasso clown fish.
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