Odaily Planet Daily News zkSync developer Matter Labs has filed trademark applications for "ZK" in 9 countries, claiming that the term "zero knowledge" is the company's exclusive intellectual property. This move has caused widespread dissatisfaction in the crypto industry. To this end, industry leaders including Polygon co-founders Sandeep Nailwal and Brendan Farmer, StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson, Polyhedra Network co-founder and zkBridge inventor Tiancheng Xie, and Turing Award winner and ZK-proofs co-inventor Shafi Goldwasser signed an open letter calling on Matter Labs to withdraw its trademark application and calling it "oppression." StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson directly stated that Matter Labs' attempt to register ZK technology as a trademark was an "absurd intellectual property registration." Matter Labs has not yet responded to this matter. (Cointelegraph)
