The issue is the owner of the trademark "arduino" wants the wording changed on the project to avoid confusion. If this is a simple misunderstanding why is the project owner being unresponsive? I am sure the project owner's contact info is up to date with Kickstarter since he is expecting a +$150k wire transfer from them.
He's been very responsive. Look at the blog post comments.
Also, to clear up a misconception, Kickstarter doesn't pay the project creators, Amazon does. It pays the creator individually for each backer, and then money is transferred to Kickstarter from the Creator's payment account.
So the individual backers pay the Creator, the Creator pays Kickstarter. But it all happens automatically.
Unresponsive? Whatnow? He has more comments on the blog post than the post's author! He's asked repeatedly for the author to email him directly, allowing him to release the invoices for the orders the post author claims are nonexistent, but hasn't heard anything from him outside of the public blog post.
