Scientology --- It can't get any weirder can it? Yes it can

It can't get any weirder can it? Yes it can

So on 3 January 1989, as part of the Final Distribution of the Hubbard estate, the following Trademark Assignment is signed by dead L. Ron:

TRADEMARK ASSIGNMENT SIGNED

Reel/Frame: 0655/0711 Date Recorded: 1989-06-20 [see] Date Signed: 1989-01-03 Assignor(s): L. RON HUBBARD, DECEASED SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY CALIFORNIA Assignee(s): STARKEY, NORMAN F., TRUSTEE OF L. RON HUBBARD'S FAMILY TRUST-B Brief: JUDGMENT OF FINAL DISTRIBUTION BY THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY JAN. 3, 1989

Serial No. Reg. No. Mark ------------- ----------- --------------------------------------- 72069314 0701603 DOOM 73040664 1025913 NARCONON 73588214 1442039 .......... [IMAGE: MISSION EARTH LOGO] 73703450 1505842 WRITERS OF THE FUTURE

Correspondence Address: BAKER & MCKENZIE 725 SOUTH FIGUEROA STREET LOS ANGELES, CA 90017

So okay, so we know what "Writers of the Future" is and we know what Narconon is and we know what "Mission Earth" is. So what is this "DOOM"?

An unpublished L. Ron Hubbard science fiction epic?

So we go to the Trademark Office TESS search engine at

http://tess.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=search&state=gd62hr.1.1

and we drop in 72069314.

And do we find reference to a science fiction epic? No.

Well, sort of. We find this:

Serial Number 72069314 Registration Number 0701603 Word Mark DOOM Type of Mark TRADEMARK Mark Drawing Code (5) WORDS, LETTERS, AND/OR NUMBERS IN STYLIZED FORM Filing Date March 11, 1959 Registration Date July 26, 1960 Renewal 2ND RENEWAL 20010202 Goods and Services IC 005. US 006. G & S: Biological Product Being a Powder Containing Microbial Spores. FIRST USE:

19540300. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19540300 Owner Name (REGISTRANT) CHITTICK, HOWARD A. DBA FAIRFAX BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY Owner Address UNKNOWN ELECTRONIC ROAD CLINTON CORNERS NEW YORK (LAST LISTED OWNER) CHITTICK, DAVID A.

INDIVIDUAL BY ASSIGNMENT UNITED STATES Owner Address (LAST LISTED OWNER) 1745 COUNTY ROUTE 7 ANCRAM NEW YORK 12502 Assignment Recorded ASSIGNMENT RECORDED Attorney of Record RALPH M. BURTON, ESQ.

Register PRINCIPAL Prior Registrations 0052157;0425119;AND OTHERS Affidafit Text SECT 15. SECT 8 (6-YR). SECTION 8(10-YR) 20010202.

Live/Dead Indicator LIVE Current Status: Section 8 and 15 affidavits have been accepted and acknowledged. Date of Status: 1997-12-22 SOURCE: United States Trademark Office records

Nighty-night.

Message-ID: <3CB5AFDE.9C3F4431@bc.cc.ca.us>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:46:38 -0700
From: Chris Leithiser <cleithis@bc.cc.ca.us>
Subject: Re: It can't get any weirder can it? Yes it can

Chris Leithiser wrote:

>
> ptsc wrote:
> >

> > The only reason I can think of for a biological product which is
> > a powder containing microbial spores is that it is intended as a
> > bioterrorism device. Anyone else have something less ominous?
> >
> > ptsc
>
> "BT" (I am not kidding, Bacillus thuringensis) powder, a bacterial
> pesticide for use on vegetables. Don't know that this is what DOOM is,
> but it's one other use for such tech.

Sorry to reply to my own post, but that's what Doom is, a natural pesticide made from something called "Bacillus popillia."

http://www.hort.uconn.edu/ipm/homegrnd/htms/37lpests.htm

(BTW, apparently the pesticide form of BT is made by Novartis. And now the circle is complete. :)

From: Pito Poquito <pitito@newsguy.com>
Subject: Re: It can't get any weirder can it? Yes it can
Date: 11 Apr 2002 09:40:49 -0700
Organization: ARSCC (wdne)
Message-ID: <a94eah015pr@drn.newsguy.com>

In article <nouabuchg89dsk9pbvcfpgjbn8srke49i8@4ax.com>, ptsc says...

>
>On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:24:42 +0200, "roger gonnet" <roger.gonnet@worldnet.fr>
>wrote:
>
>>Could you explain what it means - simply said?
>
>It means that Scientology owns a trademark, the word "DOOM"
>on a product described as a "Biological Product Being a Powder
>Containing Microbial Spores."
>
>That would seem to be saying Scientology owns a trademark
>for a powder containing microbial spores. Surely there's some
>less insane explanation for this, but I can't think of it.
>
>The only reason I can think of for a biological product which is
>a powder containing microbial spores is that it is intended as a
>bioterrorism device. Anyone else have something less ominous?
>
>ptsc

It is very unsettling in this post-anthrax time in the US...

however, Doom is a really ancient trademark for a pesticide (goes back to at least 1905).

After poking around the trademark search engine and others for a while, I think the truth in this case is probably less exotic. I think that Hubbard probably had a story idea or something he was going to call Doom. Perhaps the cult even trademarked it, although looking at the 6 hits you get for the trademark "Doom" alone, you don't see anything that might have been Hubbards.

When the paperwork was going through for the transfer of some trademarks to Starkey (for the "Family Trust", snort) in 1989, some intern or temp at Baker and McKenzie got sloppy and pulled up the wrong id number and ended up with that one for Doom.

That's why the records for Doom in the TESS are dated far earlier than 1989, and have been renewed as recently as 2001. So as juicy as it would have been to unearth such a harrowing piece of data, I think in reality the truth is probably much more mundane.

And on a completely different note: although I applaud the court's decision to tell CoS to back off of their harassment of the plaintiff in the L McP case, why did it take FORTY SEVEN FSCKING demands for the same discovery before something was done?????

This does not bode well for future abuses of process the Cult must have planned for this case. But I am hoping for the best.

I am guessing that the result will be the same as that in the Chicago case (forget the name) where the plaintiffs were paid off and gagged forever. But in this case it was not lost moneys that are at issue, but a lost life...

Well, we'll see...

Pito Poquito

From: renedescartes00@hotmail.com (Rene Descartes)
Subject: Re: It can't get any weirder can it? Yes it can
Date: 11 Apr 2002 08:58:38 -0700
Message-ID: <b9e50dcd.0204110758.34354ded@posting.google.com>

From: http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/insect-mite/abamectin-bufencarb/bacillus-popillae/insect-prof-bac-pop.html

Bacillus popilliae (Doom) Chemical Profile 4/85 Bacillus popilliae

CHEMICAL NAME: Not applicable

DEC INGRED. CODE:

TRADE NAME(S): Doom, Japidemic (56)

FORMULATION(S): Spore powder ready-to-use. Not less than 100 million viable spores per gram of inert powder (56).

TYPE: Microbial insecticide

BASIC PRODUCER(S): Fairfax Biological Laboratory, Inc.

Electronic Road Clinton Corners, NY 12514

STATUS: General use

PRINCIPAL USES: Specific biological control product for the grub or larva of the Japanese beetle (1).

I. EFFICACY

Only one application is needed for lasting control.

Improves with time (56).

II. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES

To be developed.

III. HEALTH HAZARD INFORMATION

OSHA STANDARD: None established

NIOSH RECOMMENDED LIMIT: None established

ACGIH RECOMMENDED LIMIT: None established

TOXICOLOGY

A. ACUTE TOXICITY

ORAL: Considered harmless to mammals (1).

B. SUBACUTE AND CHRONIC TOXICITY:

To be developed.

IV. ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS

Considered harmless to mammals, birds, fish and beneficial insects (1).

Approximate Residual Period: Several years in soil (1).

V. EMERGENCY AND FIRST AID PROCEDURES

The chemical information provided below has been condensed from original source documents, primarily from "Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings", 3rd ed. by Donald P.

Morgan, which have been footnoted. This information has been provided in this form for your convenience and general guidance only. In specific cases, further consultation and reference may be required and is recommended. This information is not intended as a sub- stitute for a more exhaustive review of the literature nor for the judgement of a physician or other trained professional.

If poisoning is suspected, do not wait for symptoms to develop.

Contact a physician, the nearest hospital, or the nearest Poison Control Center.

Considered harmless to mammals (1).

VI. FIRE AND EXPLOSION INFORMATION

To be developed.

VII. COMPATIBILITY

Should not be combined or applied with other materials (1).

VIII. PROTECTIVE MEASURES

To be developed.

IX. PROCEDURES FOR SPILLS AND LEAKS

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, CALL, DAY OR NIGHT (800) 424-9300 PESTICIDE TEAM SAFETY NETWORK/CHEMTREC

X. LITERATURE CITED

1. Harding, W.C. 1979. Pesticide profiles, part one:

insecticides and miticides. Univ. Maryland, Coop. Ext. Serv. Bull.

267.

30 pp.

56. Farm Chemicals Handbook, 70th ed. 1984. R. T. Meister, G.

Berg, C. Sine, S. Meister, and J. Poplyk, eds. Meister Publishing Co., Willoughby, OH.

4/15/85

Kill the Japanese Beetles! This must be what The Final Authority used when he "defeated" the entire Japanese navy!

Now where does that lead us to?

What new conspiracies do we have now?

RD00

Anonymous <nobody@remailer.privacy.at> wrote in message news:<2ce8b0b2a0f44757d6e9444fa1d61b01@remailer.privacy.at>...

> So on 3 January 1989, as part of the Final Distribution of the Hubbard
> estate, the following Trademark Assignment is signed by dead L. Ron:
>
> TRADEMARK ASSIGNMENT SIGNED
> Reel/Frame: 0655/0711
> Date Recorded: 1989-06-20 [see]
> Date Signed: 1989-01-03
> Assignor(s): L. RON HUBBARD, DECEASED
> SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
> Assignee(s): STARKEY, NORMAN F., TRUSTEE OF L. RON HUBBARD'S
> FAMILY TRUST-B
> Brief: JUDGMENT OF FINAL DISTRIBUTION BY THE SUPERIOR COURT
> OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY JAN. 3, 1989
>
> Serial No. Reg. No. Mark
> ------------- ----------- ---------------------------------------
> 72069314 0701603 DOOM
> 73040664 1025913 NARCONON
> 73588214 1442039 .......... [IMAGE: MISSION EARTH LOGO]
> 73703450 1505842 WRITERS OF THE FUTURE
>
> Correspondence Address: BAKER & MCKENZIE 725 SOUTH FIGUEROA STREET
> LOS ANGELES, CA 90017
>
> So okay, so we know what "Writers of the Future" is and we know what
> Narconon is and we know what "Mission Earth" is. So what is this "DOOM"?
>
> An unpublished L. Ron Hubbard science fiction epic?
>
> So we go to the Trademark Office TESS search engine at
>
> http://tess.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=search&state=gd62hr.1.1
>
> and we drop in 72069314.
>
> And do we find reference to a science fiction epic? No.
>
> Well, sort of. We find this:
>
> Serial Number 72069314
> Registration Number 0701603
> Word Mark DOOM
> Type of Mark TRADEMARK
> Mark Drawing Code (5) WORDS, LETTERS, AND/OR NUMBERS IN STYLIZED
> FORM
> Filing Date March 11, 1959
> Registration Date July 26, 1960
> Renewal 2ND RENEWAL 20010202
> Goods and Services IC 005. US 006. G & S: Biological Product Being
> a Powder Containing Microbial Spores. FIRST USE:
> 19540300. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19540300
> Owner Name (REGISTRANT) CHITTICK, HOWARD A. DBA FAIRFAX
> BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY
> Owner Address UNKNOWN ELECTRONIC ROAD CLINTON CORNERS NEW YORK
> (LAST LISTED OWNER) CHITTICK, DAVID A.
> INDIVIDUAL BY ASSIGNMENT
> UNITED STATES
> Owner Address (LAST LISTED OWNER) 1745 COUNTY ROUTE 7 ANCRAM
> NEW YORK 12502
> Assignment Recorded ASSIGNMENT RECORDED
> Attorney of Record RALPH M. BURTON, ESQ.
> Register PRINCIPAL
> Prior Registrations 0052157;0425119;AND OTHERS
> Affidafit Text SECT 15. SECT 8 (6-YR). SECTION 8(10-YR)
> 20010202.
> Live/Dead Indicator LIVE
> Current Status: Section 8 and 15 affidavits have been accepted
> and acknowledged. Date of Status: 1997-12-22
> SOURCE: United States Trademark Office records
>
> Nighty-night.

From: "Feisty" <sunny@skytoday.com>
Subject: Re: It can't get any weirder can it? Yes it can
Message-ID: <Lwit8.1971$sj6.87253@news20>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:07:50 -0500
Organization: Jump.Net

Chris Leithiser <cleithis@bc.cc.ca.us> wrote in message news:3CB5B416.4806B895@bc.cc.ca.us...

> Rene Descartes wrote:
> >
> > From:
http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/insect-mite/abamectin-bufencarb/bacill us-popillae/insect-prof-bac-pop.html > >
> > Bacillus popilliae (Doom) Chemical Profile 4/85
> > Bacillus popilliae
>
> So, possible scenario: Hubbard writes a story named Doom and trademarks
> the term. Company develops pesticide and wants to use the name.
> Hubbard keeps control of the name but licenses company to use it.

Do you think suing the company for the ritalin issues could be separate or jusxaposition for control? Or a fulcrum?

Feisty

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