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Trademark – Not Again!
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‚The trademarking of the word ‚Jikiden Reiki‘ was for the safety of the institute.‘
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I am making a quick jump back to the 90s.
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One of the causes of a lot of unhappiness, to put it mildly … back in the 90s
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was the effort of Phyllis particularly to trademark Reiki. Okay?
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Now, I don’t want to go back into that time, we’ve covered it quite a bit already.
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At the time, it did not work out for a number of reasons, legally.
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I think you were even involved maybe in the clarification with the Japanese language that …
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What she tried to do was [to trademark] generic terms used in the Japanese language and legally it was impossible. But!
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In my mind, much more importantly, a lot of the people in the Reiki community objected even from within her own school of thought,
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objected to the concept of what looked like domination.
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Now, I’m happy if you want to share a few words about your involvement back then, but my main purpose of the question is:
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I’m hearing rumours that Jikiden Reiki is trying to trademark things in China.
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In China?
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In China of all places, yes.
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Now, to me, that in itself is worthy that we discuss it. But even more so, I’m seeing repetitions happening.
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I will get maybe … back to repetitions in other contexts. Publication of books, for example.
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But here we have the trademarking of the 90s that has stirred a big shit storm – as they might call it nowadays- back then.
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And here there are – justifiably or not – apparently endeavours of Jikiden Reiki trying to trademark.
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I never heard anything about that. Of course, it doesn’t mean that it’s not true or that there haven’t been any efforts like that.
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I’ve never heard anything about it. And my reaction was, you saw, I was laughing.
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The reason I was laughing was because I’ve been asked by our institute not to teach in China.
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And …
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The reason was that in China you can’t … or we haven’t been able to find a way to implement our requirements, our rules,
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they don’t follow the rules.
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So they told me, ‚Please don’t go there because it always creates a big mess.‘
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And because of that, I didn’t, I haven’t taught there.
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There are some other places where it’s difficult, Russia, for example.
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Let’s stay with China.
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Okay, difficult to follow the rules.
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Because we have rules, certain rules about the teaching and all that. So we stopped working there.
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I never went anyway, Tadao sensei went to Hong Kong sometimes.
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I don’t know if you had gone to mainland China, but we had people come from mainland China to groups in Japan.
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So … first time I hear that they’re trying to trademark something. Now the trademark thing in Jikiden Reiki,
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what has been trademarked is the term ‚Jikiden Reiki‘.
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So why did they trademark it?
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We talked about it that somebody from Cologne patented the book title of mine.
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We don’t want that to happen again.
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So, the trademarking of the word ‚Jikiden Reiki‘ was for the safety of the institute.
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Not so you can sue somebody else, but so you cannot be …
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People cannot extort big amounts of money from you.
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So if there were an effort for them trying to trademark the word ‚Jikiden Reiki‘ in China,
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which I really have never heard, I would think the only reason why they would possibly consider that
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would be for the safety for the institute.
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We have never, we as the Jikiden Reiki Institute, we have never had any court cases, not one.
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In the 25 years that I’ve been with them. Me, that I’ve been involved in Reiki since 92 …. So how many 33 years? 33 is a good number.
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Schnapszahl [German humour].
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Canon, the number of Canon, 33 words.
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So I’ve been involved in Reiki for 33 years. I’ve had a lot of conflict as we discussed a little bit about.
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I have not had a single court case and I’m not planning on ever having one. It doesn’t interest me.
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It doesn’t interest me.
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I’ve learned that when conflict comes, I do my best to do some kind of Aikido movement to get out of the way.
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That’s my way. I don’t want to fight with people. I think it’s a waste of time.
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And from my impression and from my knowing of Tadao sensei, whom I know quite well, he’s not interested in that.
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I don’t think he wants to trademark something, to hold something, to have something.
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If he has some idea of it it’s just for protecting yourself.
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Like I remember years ago, there was … many years ago,
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Mercedes was just about to come out with a new line of cars with different letters and different numbers.
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And when they had advertised all of that, they found that somebody had
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trademarked those things beforehand and they had to pay a lot of money.
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This kind of thing you want to avoid.
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I mean trademarking and particularly intellectual property … that’s the way of the real world in the world of commerce out there.
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I have a lot of sympathy if somebody forms a company and has its own logo and he or she is going to trademark it. That’s the way of life today.
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Fine, absolutely fine! Good for safety, for your own safety. Otherwise [head shaking].
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So from that perspective, there’s nothing wrong with it.
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But the contradictions sometimes are interesting and that’s what I wanted to bring up.
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On the subject and slightly changing the subject and going back to the year 2000, 2002, and I want to address an elephant in the room.
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Translation: AI
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