According to Foresight News, Matter Labs tweeted that it is grateful for the opinions and suggestions of Vitalik Buterin, NEAR founder Illia Polosukhin, Hasu and others on how to ensure that key terms such as "ZK" remain freely available and free from abuse. The community proposals they fully support include: establishing a non-owner legal entity whose sole purpose is to hold trademarks for "ZK" and similar key names, led by a trusted, impartial and neutral organization or community member; the entity provides free trademark licenses to everyone; and inviting many influential community figures and impartial and neutral organizations to join as guarantors.
Matter Labs commits that it will not file any new trademark applications for ZK. If an application is rejected, Matter Labs will not appeal. Matter Labs will never enforce any existing or future ZK trademarks it owns, except for defensive purposes. Matter Labs also commits to financially support the creation of a community-led trademark holder (TM-holder) entity to which it will transfer all applied ZK trademarks.