stoxdox Inc. Summary and Timeline of Events
December 2020: stoxdox Inc. was founded and established in Wilmington, North Carolina.
- With a Mission to be the “Netflix of finance,” the go-to information platform for global investors, individual consumers, upon startup, the number one priority was to protect stoxdox’s brand equity.
- stoxdox’s slogan is “You’ve got to dox your stocks.” The “dox” part is the brand as we do not just dox stocks but all socio-economically relevant information for investors; think “doxing” a person only stoxdox “doxes” things relevant to investors.
- Without the ability to protect a consumer media brand in the marketplace from trademark infringement, stoxdox Inc.’s probability of attracting content partners/channels (equity partners) and capital providers was/is zero percent.
December 2020: stoxdox Inc. files for trademark (Brand Equity) protection at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in Washington DC.
- Upon the filing of a trademark, the USPTO posts the brand on the public registry which opens a six month window in which the brand may be challenged for trademark infringement and denied registration and thus protection in the marketplace.
June 2020: Stoxx Ltd. files for a 60 day extension of time to decide whether to contest the stoxdox Inc. brand at the United States Patent and Trademark Office for trademark infringement.
August 2020: Stoxx Ltd. sends legal notification to stoxdox Inc. that stoxdox is committing unfair business practices against Stoxx Ltd., “unfair competition,” and is infringing on Stoxx Ltd.’s trademarks by causing confusion in the consumer market.
- Stoxx Ltd. claims stoxdox is/was causing individual consumer confusion in the marketplace and that consumers are likely to believe stoxdox Inc. is just another Stoxx Ltd. consumer offering.
- Stoxx Ltd. made the following claims/demands in its legal notification served to stoxdox in August 2020:
- Uses of stoxdox as a trademark and trade name, as part of the domain name stoxdox.com, and as part of social media names or handles constitutes trademark infringement and unfair competition and expose stoxdox to injunctive action and monetary liability, including stoxdox’s profits and Stoxx’s damages and attorney’s fees.
- Immediately abandon the stoxdox United States Patent and Trademark Office brand Application.
- Do not seek to register or register in the future any other trademarks, trade names, social media names or handles, or other marks that contains STOXX, STOX, or any confusingly similar term.
- Stoxx Ltd. claims a monopoly on all spelling variants of a generic word: “stocks.”
- Immediately and permanently cease all use of stoxdox and any other marks, names, or designations that are confusingly similar to Stoxx (“stocks”). Do not use any variant of Stoxx (“stocks”) as part of any social media names or handles, or as part of any other trademarks, corporate names, trade names, domain names, social media names or handles, screen names, URLs, email addresses, or other identifiers.
- Transfer to Stoxx Ltd. stoxdox’s Domain Name and any other domain names stoxdox owns or controls comprised of or containing STOXX, STOX, or any variations thereof (“stocks”).
- Stoxx Ltd. reserves all rights to take whatever actions it deems necessary to protect its valuable trademark rights, including filing an Opposition to the stoxdox Application and to seek remedies for such violations without further notice.
September 2020: Stoxx Ltd. files suit at the United States Patent and Trademark Office to block the stoxdox brand from being registered and thus protected in the consumer marketplace.
- The burden of proof in a USPTO intellectual property trial resides 100% with the Opposer in all cases, Stoxx Ltd. in our case.
- Stoxx Ltd. had the burden to prove stoxdox Inc. was likely to cause “confusion, mistake, or deception” in the consumer marketplace.
September 2020 through March 2023: Numerous evidentiary filings are made by both Stoxx Ltd. and stoxdox Inc. as part of the highly regimented USPTO trial filings calendar.
- The intellectual property trial did not reach the testimony phase until March 15, 2023.
March 2023: Stoxx Ltd. files its trial testimony.
April -May 2023: stoxdox Inc. thoroughly investigates Stoxx Ltd. in relation to its testimonial claims.
June 2023: stoxdox Inc. files its trial testimony.
- stoxdox Inc. notifies its law firm of criminal perjury throughout Stoxx Ltd.’s trial testimony.
- stoxdox Inc. requests legal intervention by its law firm to report the crimes.
- stoxdox’s law firm stonewalls stoxdox through August 2023 and refuses to address the crimes.
July 2023: Stoxx Ltd. files its rebuttal testimony to stoxdox Inc’s trial testimony.
- In a USPTO trial, only the trademark Opposer may file testimony rebuttals, in this case Stoxx Ltd.
August 2023: stoxdox Inc. files an ethics complaint against Stoxx Ltd.’s law firm with the United States Patent and Trademark Office professional conduct/ethics department. stoxdox also files an ethics complaint with its law firm’s senior partners.
- The USPTO has detailed professional conduct rules.
- stoxdox provided the USPTO ethics department thorough evidence of professional conduct violations on behalf of Stoxx Ltd.’s law firm and its own law firm.
- The ethics complaints were ignored.
August 2023: Within days of stoxdox’s ethics complaint with its law firm’s senior partners, stoxdox’s law firm resigns without addressing the ethics complaint.
August – September 2023: stoxdox Inc. searches for legal replacement and is unable to find legal representation. Ethics complaints made it impossible even though stoxdox was left with no option but to file the ethics complaints.
September 2023: stoxdox notifies the USPTO that it will represent itself for the duration of the trial.
September – October 2023: stoxdox files several Judicial Notices in the USPTO trial detailing the criminal perjury in Stoxx Ltd.’s testimony and rebuttal testimony then files a Motion for Judgement due to “failure to prove” in Stoxx Ltd.’s testimonial evidence.
- The Motion for Judgement was denied on technical grounds, the USPTO stated it was untimely as it should have been filed closer to the time of Stoxx Ltd.’s March 2023 testimonial submission and July 2023 rebuttal testimonial submission.
- The stalling and resignation by stoxdox’s law firm exceeded the timeline for filing the Motion for Judgement for failure to prove.
- The USPTO never responded to the Judicial Notices.
October 2023: Following weeks of no response from the USPTO to stoxdox’s Judicial Notices, Stoxx Ltd. files a motion to strike the Judicial Notices from the trial record.
- The USPTO grants Stoxx Ltd.’s demands and strikes stoxdox’s Judicial Notices from the trial record.
- The USPTO never addressed the content of the Judicial Notices, the evidence of systemic perjury, they simply granted Stoxx Ltd.’s demands to strike the evidence of crimes from the trial record.
- The USPTO may not rule on matters of law as a matter of trial rules. As such, the USPTO may not rule on securities law violations which one must understand to see the perjury in Stoxx Ltd.’s trial testimonials.
- That Stoxx Ltd., a sophisticated financial institution, struck evidence of financial crimes from an intellectual property trial is highly illegal; they have a duty to report/address financial crimes when they are made aware of them.
January 2024: Stoxx Ltd. files its Trial Brief.
February 2024: stoxdox Inc. files its Trial Brief.
March 2024: Stoxx Ltd. files its Rebuttal Trial Brief to stoxdox’s Trial Brief.
- As was the case with trial testimony rebuttal rights, only the Opposer may file a rebuttal to USPTO Trial Briefs, in this case Stoxx Ltd.
- The USPTO trial sequence and the rights of each party place the power in the hands of the Opposer with sole rebuttal rights. In other words, the system is easily abused by those who file Opposition suits.
August 2024: The United States Patent and Trademark Office trial board rules in favor of Stoxx Ltd. and denies the stoxdox brand registration and thus its marketplace protection.
September 2024: stoxdox Inc. files an 804 Request For Rehearing, Reconsideration, or Modification of Final Decision in response to the USPTO decision.
- stoxdox’s 804 Request asked the USPTO to stay its decision pending a proper law enforcement investigation into the crimes committed by Stoxx Ltd. throughout the trial process.
September 2024: Stoxx Ltd. files a motion to strike stoxdox’s 804 Request to stay the USPTO decision pending a proper law enforcement investigation.
- Stoxx Ltd.’s demand to strike the 804 Request was based on the USPTO not being permitted to rule on matters of law.
- The 804 Request was not asking the USPTO to illegally rule on matters of law, it was asking the USPTO to stay its decision pending a proper law enforcement investigation.
October 2024: The USPTO grants Stoxx Ltd.’s demand to strike the 804 Request thereby illegally ruling on matters of law and finalizing its decision.
December 2024: stoxdox Inc. files an Appeal of the USPTO decision with the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington DC.
December 2024: The United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denies stoxdox’s Appeal on the grounds that it is representing itself and does not have legal representation.
December 2024: stoxdox files a Motion with the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit asking for self-representation rights in the Appeal trial of the USPTO decision.
March 2025: The United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denies stoxdox’s motion for self-representation rights and gives stoxdox 60 days to find legal representation.
March – May 2025: stoxdox Inc. is unable to find legal representation.
June 2025: The United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismisses stoxdox’s Appeal of the USPTO decision due to stoxdox’s lack of legal representation, due to stoxdox demanding self-representation rights.