{"id":31224,"date":"2020-11-04T09:37:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T07:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31224"},"modified":"2025-08-28T02:36:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:36:42","slug":"telegram-to-pay-around-625000-in-legal-costs-in-gram-trademark-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/telegram-to-pay-around-625000-in-legal-costs-in-gram-trademark-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram to pay around $625,000 in legal costs in Gram trademark case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company Telegram Messenger Inc. will reimburse court costs of about $625,000 to the American startup Lantah LLC, with whom it litigated over the right to use the GRAM trademark and ticker.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. district court awarded Lantah $618,240 in attorney&#8217;s fees and $6,737 in costs.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney&#8217;s fees were calculated at a market rate of $600 per hour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View Telegram Messenger Inc v. Lantah, LLC on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/482823053\/Telegram-Messenger-Inc-v-Lantah-LLC#from_embed\">Telegram Messenger Inc v. Lantah, LLC<\/a> by <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View ForkLog's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/456422024\/ForkLog#from_embed\">ForkLog<\/a> on Scribd<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_50294\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"Telegram Messenger Inc v. Lantah, LLC\" src=\"https:\/\/ru.scribd.com\/embeds\/482823053\/content?start_page=1&#038;view_mode=scroll&#038;access_key=key-ufFhHTce2x1avrXIZhz0\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Telegram sued Lantah in 2018 over plans to launch a digital currency called Gram as part of the Telegram Open Network (TON).<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the messenger argued that Lantah sought to profit from selling tokens under the same name.<\/p>\n<p>Lantah stated that it publicly used the name Gram before Telegram learned of the plans.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2020, Pavel Durov announced the termination of the TON project under pressure from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and a U.S. court ban on distributing Gram tokens.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Telegram <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/telegram-withdraws-trademark-suit-over-gram-and-agrees-to-cover-legal-costs\">withdrew<\/a> the suit against Lantah and agreed to cover court costs.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram Messenger Inc. will reimburse court costs of about $625,000 to the American startup Lantah LLC, which it sued over the right to use the GRAM trademark and ticker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,1422],"class_list":["post-31224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-toncoin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"35","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31226,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31224\/revisions\/31226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}