This site was provided by the R.O.G.D. from March 21, 2009 until October 27, 2015 when we formally received notice that we were in violation of A.M.O.R.C.'s trademark of the Rosicruican Order name. Our ISP took down our website due to threatened legal action from A.M.O.R.C. Their legal notice is reproduced below.
We continue to Work privately, silently, and namelessly. "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet".
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Subject: Trademark infringement, Unfair competition, and
Deceptive trade practices concerning the ROSICRUCIAN ORDER phrase
Dear Sirs:
We are writing on behalf of our client, the Supreme Grand Lodge of the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, Inc., of California (“SGL”). SGL is active in the field of the organization of educational and cultural activities and materials relating to philosophy, mysticism, and spiritual discovery.
SGL has been known world-wide as THE ROSICRUCIAN ORDER since 1915 and at no time during a century of use of the ROSICRUCIAN ORDER name and trademarks has SGL had its rights to exclusive use of the name and trademarks successfully challenged in any country. The ROSICRUCIAN ORDER name and trademarks are firmly associated with SGL. SGL has registered ROSICRUCIAN ORDER trademarks in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. See United States Registration No. 4416327, Canada Registration No. TMA852667, European Community Registration No. 005116488, International Registration No. 1041575 (designating Australia), International Registration No. 1370666 (designating Australia), and New Zealand Registration No. 823836.
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We look forward to your favorable replies by no later than November 15, 2015, including confirmation that you will no longer use or assist with the use on any website or otherwise of the phrase ROSICRUCIAN ORDER in or with any name or trademark.
SGL reserves all rights and remedies in all countries. This letter is written “without prejudice.”
Sincerely yours,
NIXON & VANDERHYE P.C.
/Duane M. Byers/
Duane M. Byers