

I reached out to Argon for an update and received the following statement:
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Hello there,
As of today, you might have received a message from the Kickstarter Trust & Safety Team concerning our recently closed SPACEONE project that you have backed.
We are surprised by this message from the Kickstarter team and have not received any advanced warning about this issue. This Intellectual Property Dispute concern our trademarks.
As a precaution, it seems that Kickstarter has frozen the project for the time being automatically while we provide the relevant documentation to their team.
The funds are currently still with Kickstarter - we have not received them yet and we will make sure that we stand right by you, the backer.
On our side - we want to confirm with you that we have indeed registered the trademark MONTRES ARGON in france in 2018 and extended to all EUROPE, USA & JAPAN.
We remain available for any other questions and will make sure to keep in close contact with you about the situation, the funds & the watches!
Best Regards, Guillaume, Theo and the Argon team
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Let's keep fingers crossed that this all gets ironed out sooner rather than later. A recent post suggests there are more than €1 million at stake!
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