Sign the petition
The petition makes the issue visible, gives public weight to the initiators, and shows that the community is following the matter.
Community evidence file
Protect the word astrocartography
Signing shows support. Evidence makes action possible. Saturno is appointing legal counsel to turn these sources into a usable case file for the INPI.
Public petition3,371
Direct Change.org snapshot04/06/2026
Site objectiveEvidence
Expected outputLegal file
01 / understand
The clear path
This site does not file anything automatically. It collects evidence that Saturno will pass to appointed legal counsel to prepare the INPI process.
Add evidence
A date, source, link, screenshot, or bibliographic reference can help demonstrate common use of the term.
Have the file reviewed
Saturno is appointing a lawyer or patent/trademark attorney to qualify the evidence, frame the legal grounds, and prepare the INPI file.
02 / petition vs action
Visibility, evidence, decision
The petition creates visibility. The evidence file creates factual leverage.
Sign
- Goal
- Show public and community support.
- Who
- Anyone who wants to support the initiative.
- Outcome
- Visibility, pressure, public legitimacy.
Document
- Goal
- Gather dated, attributable, and verifiable sources.
- Who
- Practitioners, researchers, readers, publishers, developers, witnesses.
- Outcome
- A file passed to the counsel appointed by Saturno.
Request cancellation
- Goal
- Officially request cancellation of a contested trademark.
- Who
- The person or entity filing the request with the INPI.
- Outcome
- Administrative decision after adversarial proceedings.
03 / legal mandate
What Saturno handles
Contributions do not replace legal work. They give the appointed professional a solid, verifiable, organized factual base.
Evidence for legal action, not just for a page
Saturno collects, sorts, and passes useful material to an appointed lawyer or industrial property counsel to assess and prepare the appropriate action before the INPI.
Books, screenshots, archives, software, courses, documented testimonies, and bibliographic references.
Date, author, country, language, source type, level of verifiability, and link with common use of the term.
The file is handed to the appointed professional for legal qualification, strategy, and useful exhibits.
The objective is to support a cancellation request or any INPI process validated by counsel.
04 / useful evidence
What we need to find
Central question: was the term "astrocartography" already used as a common or descriptive term before the contested filing?
Books and publications
Dated printed sources are often the strongest way to establish prior use of the term in a professional or educational context.
high priorityTitle page, ISBN, publication year, pages where the term appears.
Articles and journals
Articles help show that the term circulated publicly within a given community, language, or country.
high priorityJournal name, date, author, link, scan, or bibliographic reference.
Software and databases
Software, a manual, or an interface screen can demonstrate functional and descriptive use of the term before the contested filing.
medium prioritySoftware name, version, date, manual, screenshot, or archive.
Archived websites
Web archives help document common use by practitioners, schools, publishers, or platforms.
medium priorityURL, Wayback capture, visible date, page context.
Courses and talks
Educational materials show that the term designated a method, discipline, or skill being taught.
usefulProgram, syllabus, poster, course material, date, and organizer.
Documented testimonies
Testimonies are useful when they rely on dated documents rather than memory alone.
to documentInvoices, brochures, public emails, screenshots, client materials, or dated references.
05 / timeline
A timeline to consolidate
These milestones are working leads. Each entry must be confirmed by a precise source before inclusion in the file.
1950
Gustav Schwickert and historical references
Context lead on the roots of geographic or locational astrology.
1950s
Cyril Fagan, Roy Firebrace, Donald Bradley
Publication leads to verify in order to document earlier methodological use.
1970s
Jim Lewis and Astro*Carto*Graphy
Key point in the commercialization and international spread of the technique.
1980s-2020s
Books, software, training, consultations
The weight of common use is often found in these ordinary traces.
2025-2026
Contested filing and mobilization
Recent context: petition, practitioner accounts, letters, and concrete effects to document.
06 / contribution
Add evidence
Contributions land in a private collection space, then can be reviewed, qualified, and transmitted to the counsel appointed by Saturno.
Submit evidence
Each contribution remains private. It is reviewed, qualified, completed if needed, then transmitted to the appointed counsel only if it is useful to the file.
- Evidence type
- Date or period
- Source / title
- Author
- URL or file
- Legal usefulness
- Connection to the topic
- Contact
- Consent
Contributions are not published automatically. The collection space remains private; only useful elements are transmitted to the appointed counsel.
07 / petition and next steps
Support remains public
The petition shows mobilization. The evidence file feeds the work of the appointed counsel handling the INPI process.
Signatures and support
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Legal route handled by counsel
Saturno is appointing a lawyer or IP counsel to examine a cancellation request before the INPI, especially around lack of distinctiveness, descriptive character, or the term becoming common use.
- Adversarial administrative procedure.
- Filing through INPI e-procedures, with exhibits and fee.
- The owner may respond and submit arguments.
- The appointed counsel validates scope, grounds, exhibits, cost, and strategy.