How should the CDH community handle the trademark issue for the benefit of all CDH families and organizations?

by CDH International - Cherubs Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Support

In a Facebook poll of 36 respondents, 66.7% chose “Breath of Hope, Inc should drop their trademarks and stop filing claims against other charities. If they truly want to help CDH families then CDH Awareness should be free for everyone to use and no one should be attacked.”. How we count

Breath of Hope, Inc should drop their trademarks and stop filing claims against other charities. If they truly want to help CDH families then CDH Awareness should be free for everyone to use and no one should be attacked.
66.7%
CHERUBS and other CDH organizations should continue to fight against the trademark and keep the entire CDH community up to date on what's going on and how our rights and CDH awareness and CDH research is being affected!
19.4%
(Addition suggested by Nik Larson) CHERUBS needs to get off this topic and get back to work focusing on the education of CDH families that just learned devastating news and have nowhere to turn for help. Instead of bombarding people with emails, facebook
8.3%
Who cares? If Breath of Hope wants to profit off of and limit the phrase "Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness", then I say let them own it. It's a capitalistic country, whoever claims ownership first should own whatever they want and ethics should
2.8%
Drop all this legal nonsense! Who is paying for all this? Isn't our country deep enough in debt? No one should be costing tax-payers more money by filing frivolous trademarks that have to be fought in trademark courts. No one should be filing false cl
2.8%
What trademark on "Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness"? I never heard of this trademark! - http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/cdhawareness
0%
CHERUBS and other CDH organizations should not fight the trademark or publicly comment on Breath of Hope's antics. CDH parents have enough to deal with, we don't want care what BoH does to whom and don't have the energy to stand up to it right now.
0%
I don't care about CDH Awareness or charities. I only care about my CDH baby, my family, my life. I have no interest in this poll or what anyone is doing for or against people affected Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia.
0%
I don't have a family member affected by CDH and never heard of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia until now
0%
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