OSHO FRIENDS INTERNATIONAL

From: Osho Friends International <info@oshofriendsinternational.com>

Date: 17/07/2009 08:56

Subject: Osho Trademarks finally cancelled in the US: Order released by Federal Court

To: info@oshofriendsinternational.com
Beloved Friends,
This is to update you with the latest developments about the trademarks of Osho and his meditations in the US.
Osho Trademarks finally cancelled in the US: Order released by Federal Court

On January 13, 2009, the Trials and Appeals Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office in its strongly worded decision said that Osho cannot be trademarked. This decision was the culmination of a legal battle started nearly 10 years ago by Osho Friends International (OFI), an association of Osho meditation centers and disciples from all over the world.
Osho International Foundation (OIF), Zurich, filed a Notice of Appeal on March 12, 2009 with respect to the January 13, 2009 decision by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. OIF filed their appeal in the Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit in Washington DC. The appeal was about the correctness of the decision rendered by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board on January 13.Later on, OIF decided to withdraw the appeal and filed for withdrawal in the Court of Appeals on June 19, 2009. Osho Friends agreed for the withdrawal. Recently the Federal Court released the order dismissing the Appeal. The trademarks of Osho in the US now finally stand cancelled. It is expected that the cancellation may soon be reflected on the website of USPTO where the trademarks had been listed.
Free downloadable Osho audio-video discourses will soon be live again @ www.oshoworld.com.

Please wait. Thank you for your patience.
Ma Prem Naina

Media Coordinator

Osho Friends International team

TRADUCCIÓN Ma Gyan Darshana
Amigos queridos, Se trata de actualizar con las últimas novedades acerca de las marcas de sus meditaciones de Osho y en los EE.UU. Osho Marcas finalmente cancelado en los EE.UU.: en libertad por orden del Tribunal Federal El 13 de enero de 2009, la Junta de Juicios y Apelaciones de los Estados Unidos Oficina de Patentes y Marcas en su enérgica decisión de Osho dice que no puede ser marca registrada. Esta decisión fue la culminación de una batalla legal comenzó hace casi 10 años por Amigos de Osho Internacional (OFI), una asociación de centros de meditación de Osho y discípulos de todo el mundo. Osho International Foundation (OIF), Zurich, presentó un escrito de apelación el 12 de marzo de 2009 con respecto al 13 de enero de 2009 la decisión por la Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. OIF presentó su recurso de casación en la Corte de Apelaciones del Circuito Federal en Washington DC. El recurso fue acerca de la exactitud de la decisión dictada por la Trademark Trial and Appeal Board el 13 de enero. Más tarde, la OIF decidió retirar el recurso de casación y solicitó la retirada de la Corte de Apelaciones el 19 de junio de 2009. Osho Amigos de acuerdo para la retirada. Recientemente, el Tribunal Federal publicó el fin de desestimar la apelación. Las marcas comerciales de Osho en los EE.UU. están ahora finalmente cancelado. Se espera que la cancelación se refleje pronto en el sitio web de la USPTO las marcas que se había incluido. Osho descargables gratis de audio y video discursos pronto se viven again@www.oshoworld.com.

Por favor, esperen. Gracias por su paciencia.

Ma Prem Naina

Coordinador de medios de comunicación Osho Internacional Amigos equipo

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http://www.mid-day.com/news/2009/jun/100609-Indian-woman-cultural-Osho-International-Resort.htm

In-conclusion PUNE 8 February 6 - 12, 2009
■ Vinita Deshmukh
While the photographs of the
spiritual mystic Osho may
have been stripped from
every visible place in the
Osho Meditation Resort
headquarters in Koregaon
Park, the fight to hold on to exclusive rights over the name
`Osho’, his meditation techniques, his works including
lectures, books, audio and video tapes. his Zen tarot card
reading and meditation centres went on for nine long years.
The rights, which were self-stylishly adorned by a
firm, called Osho International Foundation (OIF) with its
headquarters at Zurich was run by western disciples of
Osho, some of them belonging to the management that runs
the Osho commune in Pune. The OIF lay claim to all that
Osho stood for, soon after his death in 1990. For this, the
OIF had filed for patent at the Chicago based official patent
registration office in the USA. They had been granted some
patents, and some were pending.
This self-seized monopoly had several implications. It
meant that permission was required and fees were charged
if any disciple opened an Osho Meditation Centre. Until
then, any individual could open centres. Swami Chaitanya
Keerti,former spokesman of the Osho Commune who is
based in Delhi and led the fight against patenting of Osho
reasons why no one can monopolise Osho. He cites an
excerpt from Osho’s discourse `Om Shanti Shanti’ wherein
Osho has stated that, ``Things can be copyrighted, thoughts
cannot be copyrighted, and certainly meditations cannot be
copyrighted. They are not things of the marketplace. Nobody
can monopolize anything. But perhaps the West cannot
understand the difference between an objective commodity
and an inner experience. For ten thousand years the East
has been meditating and nobody has put trademarks upon
meditations.’’
Website monopoly denied
States Swami Chaitanya Keerti, ``Soon after “Osho”,
left His body in 1990 Osho International Foundation OIF
Zurich attempted to hijack the legacy of Osho . On the basis
of these registrations the Zurich entity started to monopolise
Osho and His heritage of meditations. The Zurich entity used
these maneuvers to harass and force many centers around
the world. Many Osho centers closed their centers to avoid
dealing with the threats of legal actions by OIF using their
purported claims of ownership of trademarks, copyrights
etc.’’
In March 2000, a web site www.oshoworld.com
dedicated to making a huge volume of Osho discourses
freely available on the internet, was served with a notice and
pulled down from the net. The Zurich based foundation tried
to force Osho Dhyan Mandir to abandon the domain name
www.oshoworld.com and transfer its ownership to them.
The Osho Dhyan Mandir sought legal intervention.
In its verdict on July 28, 2000 the National Arbitration
Forum of USA decided in favour of Osho Dhyan Mandir and
stated that :
“To grant ( OIF, Zurich’s ) request for relief would be to
permit virtual monopolisation on the Internet by the Osho
International Foundation ( Zurich entity)...While making no
judgment on the relative merits or validity of the world’s
religions or spiritual movements or any leader thereof...
permitting this would be as improper as doing the same
with Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Zorastrianism, Hinduism,
Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Shintoism or any of the
several hundred other of the world’s religions and/or spiritual
movements.”
Despite this verdict, many Osho Meditation Centres all
over the world were being pressurised to eight pay fees or
close down, states Swami Keerti.
Osho Friends file for cancellation of copyright
When the Zurich entity continued to work towards
legal ownership control of Osho movement and centers
around the world Osho Friends decided in 2000 to file for
cancellation of the said copyright. Swami Keerti states that
``Chicago law firm of DLF Piper Rudnick came forward with
its whole hearted support to the Osho Friends, in the cause
for freedom of spirituality and meditation.’’
OIF loses the case on January 13, 2009
Tho Osho International Foundation (OIF) had to finally
bite dust on January 13, last month, when the official patent
outfit of the USA, gave a verdict against any such copyright
and declared that `Osho’ is a generic name as it is used
for various purposes and hence cannot be copyrighted.
The judgement interestingly compared it with the case
of `Montessorie’ - the lady whose missionary zeal was
primary education. In that case too, copyright was denied
as the word `Montessorie’ had become synonymous with
education. Similarly, in a strongly worded unanimous verdict
Soon after spiritual mystic Osho
died in 1990, a foundation called
Osho International Foundation (OIF)
based in Zurich applied for trademark
registrations (patenting) of the
name `Osho’ at the Chicago based
patent and trademark office. They
sought exclusive rights for the name
Osho as well as for his publications,
meditations, therapies and meditation
centres, which were named after him
or created by him. Some of the patents
were accorded to them. This implied
that OIF had to be paid heavy fees if
anyone wanted to start a meditation
centre or even upload anything about
Osho on the Internet. This led to mass
protests from Osho followers all over
the world, led by former spokesman
of the Osho Commune, Swami
Chaitanya Keerti, based in Delhi now.
In the year 2000, a group called Osho
Friends International, with Swami Keerti
in the lead, hired American lawyers
and filed a case with the United States
Patent and Trademark office (USPTO)
petitioning against patenting of Osho.
After nine years, last fortnight on
January 13, USPTO gave a judgement
against patenting of Osho, stating
`Osho’ cannot be a patent trademark
as it is used to describe various
things like his teachings, meditations
and names of centres. It compared
it to a case relating to `Montessorie’
wherein it had declared that the
name is synonymous with primary
education and hence is `general.’
While followers of Osho all over the
world are rejoicing, the Osho Commune
headquarters in Pune has termed the
judgement akin to downgrading down
Osho to ``tissues and computers.’’
An overview of this interesting
case that has its roots in Pune
Osho is Mine,
Yours, Everyone’s

OSHOAKEED

El amor es un río que fluye sin fin
Una relación significa algo completo, acabado, cerrado. El amor jamás es una relación; el amor es una unión. Siempre es un río que fluye sin fin. El amor no conoce un freno completo; la luna de miel empieza pero nunca acaba.
No es como una novela que comienza en determinado punto y termina en determinado punto. Se trata de un fenómeno en curso. Los amantes terminan, el amor prosigue. Es algo continuo. Es un verbo, no un sustantivo. ¿Y por qué reducimos la belleza de la unión a la relación? ¿Por qué tenemos tanta prisa? Porque unirse es inseguro y la relación es una seguridad, la relación posee una certeza. Unirse es el simple encuentro de dos desconocidos, quizá algo que dura una noche para despedimos por la mañana. ¿Sabemos qué va a pasar mañana? Y tenemos tanto miedo que queremos convertirlo en una certidumbre, queremos que sea predecible. Nos gustaría que el mañana estuviera de acuerdo con nuestras ideas; no le brindamos libertad para que se exprese como es. De modo que de inmediato reducimos cada verbo a sustantivo.
Están enamorados de un hombre o una mujer y de inmediato empiezan a pensar en casarse. En hacer que sea un contrato legal. ¿Por qué? ¿Cómo es que la ley entra en el amor? Lo hace porque el amor no está presente. Solo se trata de una fantasía y saben que la fantasía desaparecerá. Pero antes de que desaparezca, se asientan; antes de que desaparezca, hacen algo para que sea imposible de separar.
En un mundo mejor, con personas más meditativas, con un poco más de iluminación en la Tierra, la gente amaría, amaría inmensamente, pero su amor seguiría siendo una unión, no una relación. Y no digo que ese amor llegará a ser únicamente momentáneo. Existen todas las posibilidades de que ese amor sea más profundo que el suyo, que posea una cualidad más elevada de intimidad, que tenga más poesía y más de Dios en él. Y existe toda la posibilidad de que ese amor dure más de lo que su así llamada relación pueda llegar a durar jamás. Pero no lo garantizaría la ley, ni los tribunales ni la policía.
La garantía sería interior. Sería un compromiso desde el corazón, una comunión silenciosa.
Osho

OSHOWORLD

The freely downloadable audio-video discourses have been pulled down due to threat by OIF, Zurich to our US server host. For full details visit oshofriendsinternational.com