New Letter to Mr. Henry Sy

Letter to His Holiness Pope Francis

November 11, 2014

His Holiness, Pope Francis PP.
00120 Via del Pellegrino
Citta del Vaticano


Our Dearest Holy Father,

Warmest and Most Felicitous Greetings!

In advance, may we extend our most hearty and warm Welcome to the Philippines and to Tacloban City!

We do not represent all the victims of the great typhoon Haiyan that in our country is called Yolanda. But like all the victims from the provinces of Leyte, Samar, Negros, Cebu, and Mindanao, we suffered and still are suffering.

First, we thank you for choosing to come to our country and to Tacloban our beloved hometown.

Since you are arriving please allow us to ventilate a small concern that we have written to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) as well as to the Philippines Intellectual Property Office (Phils IPO).

We also wrote mail to Mr. Henry Sy owner of SM Shoemart super malls, GRANDE BELL gambling house, SMDC condominium towers.  The issue concerns the use of our ownership of intellectual property - the name of BONUS that was registered to us in the early 1980s - more than thirty years ago by the Philippine Government and under the protection of the various international conventions for protection of intellectual property worldwide. They are callous. For more than one year after we communicated with them in 2013, they have not given us a decent reply.

Sy family

The persons that infringed our intellectual property rights are owners of the SM Shoemart, GRANDE BELL gambling complex, SMDC condominium towers, and many other business.

These same owners sell products labeled BONUS. They will now open a new store in Tacloban City called Savemore Supermart.

We cannot stop them from opening this store. We cannot stop them from continuing to illegally use the rights we own to the name wherever they want to put up their stores Dearest Holy Father.

However, we pray that with your intervention, these people can make amends for more than one to two decades of infringement of our intellectural property rights.  We strongly and intensely invoke your kindness and charity to intercede for us with these people and let them make amends with us the real owners of the name they have been benefiting from for so very very long. We believe that if the SM Shoemart will proceed to make honest amends of their unauthorized use of the BONUS name, it will benefit a lot of people, mostly our own people that became victims of Haiyan-Yolanda.  It will not affect the standing of the owners of SM Shoemart that are advertised in world media as part of the few families that own the entire Asia.

 

Thank you Holy Father and with all our love and affection we pray that His Holiness will intercede for us and have a very safe, happy and successful trip to the Philippines!!!

Owners of Bonus Name Rights

One Year Anniversary of Letter Demand to Henry Sy

In 2013, we wrote the below communication to Mr. Henry Sy:

Dear Mr. Henry Sy, 

The operation of the business conglomerate of SM Shoemart, Banco de Oro, the SM port management and ferry transport company, SM Development Corporation and real estate marketing companies, including the new Grande Belle brand in the gambling and entertainment industry are a showcase for a dynamically growing and evolving business template. 

In the whole of Southeast and other parts of Asia where the SM business brand has operated, the group of companies has met only with success. Such success has carved a niche for Mr. Henry Sy in the upper echelon of the small community of billionaires. 

In 1983, the Wei Wan Yan food packaging concept was formed and the Credence paper  and other school and office products line brand was born. In the immediate period, the marketing campaign concept for a multi-products line Bonus was accorded copyright ownership by the Philippine Government.

The owner of the brands shall now fully use the Wei wan yan, Credence and Bonus trade names as its own right. It is known  a well known fact that the SM Shoemart group of companies, particularly its merchandising arm, SM Supermart and SM Hypermarket, along with Save More and other allied marketing-retailing companies are using the Bonus trademark.

What propelled the company of Mr. Henry Sy to use the name Bonus that is rightfully owned by others is not known. However, there is a limit to the use of proprietary items like brand names as defined in both the laws of countries and in the Geneva Convention for the protection of intellectual property. In this, it is fitting that the company of Mr. Henry Sy should therefore stop  using the brand Bonus or make amends in the unlawful use of the brand whose copyright belongs to some other party. 

The owners of the Bonus brand are prepared to accept a decent and reasonable offer of peaceful and amicable amends from the side of the illegal, unlawful infringers of its intellectual property. 

This site can be reached through the email syneticindustries@gmail.com.

By:

The OwnersBonus brand copyright

By the 13 of this month, our letter to Henry Sy is already one year old. Despite the time lapsed, Henry Sy nor his subordinates, neither any of the higher or lower members of the board or management or communication section ever gave any response or even an indication of responding.

We are now providing him with another email address: syneticindustries@hotmail.com.  Whether Henry Sy and company does or does not still reply, we seek the support of people who sympathize with our cause to help us to pressure the Sy group to be fair to small people and stop stealing their intellectual property.

In the meanwhile, we are constrained to take legal action or other kind of action in whatever form to obtain redress for Henry Sy and company's obnoxious behavior.

Bonus

We did not steal the rights to use this name

We never engage in thievery of intellectual property
that belong to others

We are not criminals, we ask for permission

to use others' property

Others without a soul do not hold the same view

Please brother intsik

Flores goes to jail. Big corporations committing crime are free

Small people like the one supposedly called Michael Flores (Photo of suspect Flores below from Ms. Cherry Pie Picache's twittter post) are identified through painstaking investigation and arrested by authorities. 

For not paying their taxes and stealing intellectual property that should give livelihood to some small people, the rich and their big corporations are left alone by government.  Instead, certain individuals in the public sector are the ones taking rewards, gifts and donations illegally from these businessmen for their acts of fraud, theft, intellectual property rights infringement and many, many other crimes.

There is no justice if only the small ones are subject to it and never those that languor in their buildings and residences reaming with the fat and grime or extreme corruption.

Still, in the Confucian philosophy, when the sage speaks of the turning of tide between the small men and the great men, it does not only apply to changes in the regimes in the public sector.

The dislodging of the small men by the great men or vice versa, also happens and applies in the private sector.

In time, people like Mr. Henry Sy will come crawling in the ground and asking for forgiveness for stealing intellectual property.  That time will come.