The Foundation announced on Twitter (NYSE:) on Wednesday that it had registered “Doge,” “Dogecoin” and its associated logos as trademarks in the European Union. Tweet: January 13th, 2022.

Foundation executive board member Jens Wiechers in the tweet thread that “The issue isn‘t (and has never been) use in memes, etc, but attempts by people completely unaffiliated with Dogecoin to register them, which only really makes sense if they want to then extort either the community or the Dogecoin project, devs, foundation, etc. directly.”