ING MINING® — US Trademark Registration 7,989,340
You are about to send several thousand dollars to a hardware dealer you found on the internet. Here is how to confirm, from a federal register rather than from us, that this business is who it says it is.
ING MINING® is a registered United States trademark, Registration No. 7,989,340, live on the Principal Register since 21 October 2025. The full file — the application, the examiner’s correspondence, the specimens of use and the current status — is public, free to read, and hosted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Nothing on this page is a claim you have to take our word for.
Open the official USPTO record →
The record, as it stands today
| Mark | ING MINING — standard character mark, so the protection is on the words themselves rather than on one logo treatment (“MINING” is disclaimed apart from the mark as shown) |
|---|---|
| US registration number | 7,989,340 |
| Registration date | 21 October 2025 |
| Register | Principal Register |
| Status | LIVE / REGISTRATION — issued and active |
| US serial number | 97806036, filed 22 February 2023, published for opposition 2 September 2025 |
| Class | International Class 009 — Bitcoin mining hardware, cryptocurrency mining computer hardware, server power supply units, ASICs and integrated circuits optimised for mining, and server diagnostic and hardware test tools |
| First use in commerce | 2 February 2022 |
| Owner | Squires, Nicholas — an individual, United States citizenship, Hanson, Massachusetts. The business trades as ING Mining LLC. |
Read from the USPTO’s Trademark Status & Document Retrieval system on 29 July 2026. A trademark file is a living record — maintenance documents fall due between the fifth and sixth year after registration — so check the source rather than trusting a copy on the trademark owner’s own website, including this one.
Verify it yourself in about thirty seconds
- Go to tsdr.uspto.gov, the USPTO’s own status lookup.
- Choose US Serial Number and enter 97806036 — or choose US Registration Number and enter 7989340.
- Check three things: the mark reads ING MINING, the status reads LIVE / REGISTRATION — issued and active, and the owner is in Hanson, Massachusetts.
If any of those three do not match what is written above, do not send money — call +1 (781) 577-0377 and ask us about it.
Why a hardware buyer should care
Mining hardware attracts impersonators. Cloned storefronts, lookalike domains and “official reseller” pages that take a wire transfer and go quiet are a standing problem in this market, and the usual advice — look for a padlock, look for reviews — is exactly what a competent clone reproduces first. A federal trademark registration is harder to fake, because it is not hosted on any website the seller controls. It ties a brand name to a named owner in a named town, on a government register, with a filing history going back to February 2023 and a declared first commercial use of February 2022.
The registration also tells you what the brand covers: International Class 009, which is mining hardware, server power supplies, ASICs and diagnostic and test tools — the actual goods on this site, not a shell filed in some unrelated class.
What this proves, and what it does not
It proves who you are dealing with. It does not grade a machine, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. A registered brand name says nothing about whether the S19 in front of you has three good hashboards. That is what the rest of the evidence on this site is for:
- The bench procedure is published in full — the six steps every machine goes through before it is graded and listed, and the five measurements that get recorded, taken at the wall rather than off a spec sheet.
- Condition is a category, not an adjective. New, used and need parts are separate shelves so a repair unit cannot be blurred into a working one.
- Somebody other than us publishes our trading record. The eBay feedback for the ingmining storefront is written by buyers and hosted by eBay.
- A person answers the phone on +1 (781) 577-0377, before the sale as well as after it.
More on all of it: who we are and how the business works, and what we test, what shipping costs and what happens when something is wrong.