Re: The straight poop on Perpetual Contracts

[Alex Matulich <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Mark.  One thing though:

>    The term "Perpetual Contract" is a registered service mark
>of CSI, so it is protected from use by other firms by
>international law....
>... No other firm has the legal right to market a
>futures-related product called a "Perpetual Contract," or
>"perpetual data", or "perpetual futures contract," or use
>the term "perpetual"

But that shouldn't prevent other data vendors from offering data
generated by the same algorithm, and calling it "continuously
adjusted" or something.

CSI is really the only source for this?  That's hard to believe.

-Alex