Historical Record · 1994 to 2002 · The CreditAssure name, from Assured Card to Milinx
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Milinx’s filings with the SEC are the floor of this record. Where the site says more, it names the source: an archived page, a register entry, or Maynard L. Dokken’s account.

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Filings of Milinx Business Group, Inc. with the SEC

Milinx Business Group, Inc. filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under CIK 1088815. Each address opens the full text of the filing in the SEC’s EDGAR archive; the accession number identifies it.

  • SEC EDGAR, CIK 1088815 (filed under the name Forestay Corp), accession 0000891020-00-000041, filed 14 January 2000Form 8-K12G3, the reverse merger with Forestay Corporation (period 9 December 1999). Milinx became the reporting company. The biography of Maynard L. Dokken says he began researching a new credit card product in 1994. The ownership table lists Credit Assure International as a 20% holder, controlled by Maynard L. Dokken. It also says the shares were not yet traded on the OTC Bulletin Board.
    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1088815/0000891020-00-000041.txt
  • SEC EDGAR, CIK 1088815, accession 0000950150-00-000111, filed 15 February 2000Form 8-K12G3/A, amendment with audited financial statements. Milinx Business Group, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware on 10 December 1998 and commenced operations on 10 February 1999. Note F records the CreditAssure trademark agreement of 15 March 1999. Assured Card Corporation is listed as currently inactive.
    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1088815/0000950150-00-000111.txt
  • SEC EDGAR, CIK 1088815, accession 0000891020-00-000338, filed 22 February 2000Form 10-QSB for the quarter to 31 December 1999. On 15 October 1999 Milinx agreed with Credit Assure International, Inc., a company under common control, to acquire intangible property including the exclusive worldwide rights to use the CreditAssure trademark, for 50,000 common shares; the cost was written off as an expense.
    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1088815/0000891020-00-000338.txt
  • SEC EDGAR, CIK 1088815, accession 0001096906-00-000256, filed 13 October 2000Form 10-K for the year to 30 June 2000. Incorporation in Delaware on 10 December 1998. Note F: the exclusive licence of the CreditAssure trademark from Credit Assure International, Inc., an affiliated company, on 15 March 1999, and the purchase of substantially all its assets on 15 October 1999 for 50,000 common shares. Assured Card Corporation is listed as currently inactive. The shares began trading on the OTC Bulletin Board as MIXBA on 8 June 2000. Its Data Center opened in August 2000. The biography of Maynard L. Dokken repeats the 1994 research.
    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1088815/0001096906-00-000256.txt
  • SEC EDGAR, CIK 1088815, accession 0001096906-01-500155, filed 12 July 2001Form 8-K, workforce reduction. Milinx laid off the majority of its workforce on 19 and 22 June 2001.
    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1088815/0001096906-01-500155.txt
  • SEC EDGAR, CIK 1088815, accession 0001096906-01-500243, filed 24 August 2001Form 8-K (report dated 23 August 2001). From the end of May 2001 an advisor sourced by the funders managed the business operation of Milinx Business Services, Inc.; the placement was a requirement of the funding.
    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1088815/0001096906-01-500243.txt
  • SEC EDGAR, CIK 1088815, accession 0001096906-01-500271, filed 30 August 2001Form 8-K, appointment of a President and Chief Operational Officer. A new President and Chief Operational Officer was appointed, effective 28 August 2001.
    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1088815/0001096906-01-500271.txt
  • SEC EDGAR, CIK 1088815, accession 0001096906-01-500275, filed 5 September 2001Form 8-K, new senior management team. A new team of senior management was appointed, effective 4 September 2001.
    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1088815/0001096906-01-500275.txt
  • SEC EDGAR, CIK 1088815, accession 0001096906-01-500480, filed 16 November 2001Form 10-K for the year to 30 June 2001, with Exhibit 21 (subsidiaries). Credit Assure International Inc., 300-1045 Howe Street, Vancouver, of which Maynard L. Dokken had about 79%. Assured Card Corporation is listed as currently inactive. Maynard L. Dokken had been director, president and chief executive officer of Credit Assure Financial (Canada) Inc. since September 2000. Exhibit 21 lists Credit Assure Financial (Canada) Inc., British Columbia, incorporated 2 September 1999.
    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1088815/0001096906-01-500480.txt
  • SEC EDGAR, CIK 1088815, accession 0001096906-02-000074, filed 29 January 2002Form 8-K, resignation of Maynard L. Dokken. On 25 January 2002 Maynard L. Dokken resigned as director and CEO of Milinx and all its subsidiaries.
    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1088815/0001096906-02-000074.txt

Company and domain registers

Entries in the British Columbia company register (read through OrgBook BC) and the .com domain registry.

  • BC Registries, OrgBook BC, registered 8 March 1994; record read 14 November 2026BC company BC0468224, Assured Card Coordinating Services Inc. Registered in British Columbia on 8 March 1994. The name Assured Card Coordinating Services Inc. took effect on 29 May 1996. Status: historical.
    https://orgbook.gov.bc.ca/entity/BC0468224
  • BC Registries, OrgBook BC, registered 27 June 1997; record read 14 November 2026BC company BC0545731 (Milinx Marketing Group Inc., later 545731 B.C. Ltd.). Registered in British Columbia on 27 June 1997; named 545731 B.C. Ltd. from 9 February 2000. The Canadian MILINX trademark record gives its earlier name, Milinx Marketing Group Inc.
    https://orgbook.gov.bc.ca/entity/BC0545731
  • BC Registries, OrgBook BC, registered 14 October 1998; record read 14 November 2026BC extraprovincial registration A0048198, Assured Card Corporation. Assured Card Corporation, home jurisdiction Delaware, registered in British Columbia as an extraprovincial company on 14 October 1998. Status: historical.
    https://orgbook.gov.bc.ca/entity/A0048198
  • Verisign, .com registry (RDAP), record read 14 November 2026Registry record of creditassure.com. The domain creditassure.com was registered on 29 October 1998. The registry record does not show the registrant.
    https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/creditassure.com

Trademark registers

Entries in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office records.

  • Canadian Intellectual Property Office, Canadian Trademarks Database, filed 16 September 1998; record read 14 November 2026MILINX, Canadian application 890545. Filed by Milinx Marketing Group Inc., used in Canada since at least September 1997. Registered 17 December 1999 (TMA520676). Records the change of the owner’s name to 545731 B.C. Ltd. and the assignment to Milinx Business Group Inc.
    https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cipo/trademark-search/890545
  • USPTO, Trademark Status and Document Retrieval, filed 21 September 1998; record read 14 November 2026ASSURED CREDIT CARD (words), US serial 75559331. Applicant and owner Assured Card Corporation, a Delaware corporation. Consumer lending services, class 36. First use and use in commerce claimed from May 1996. Registered 21 November 2000 (registration 2,405,163); cancelled 25 August 2007 under Section 8.
    https://tsdr.uspto.gov/statusview/sn75559331
  • USPTO, Trademark Status and Document Retrieval, filed 21 September 1998; record read 14 November 2026ASSURED CREDIT CARD (design), US serial 75559348. Applicant and owner Assured Card Corporation. The words with a design of fern or palm fronds. Consumer lending services, class 36. First use claimed from May 1997, use in commerce from June 1997. Registered 21 November 2000 (registration 2,405,164); cancelled 25 August 2007 under Section 8.
    https://tsdr.uspto.gov/statusview/sn75559348
  • USPTO, Trademark Status and Document Retrieval, filed 21 September 1998; record read 14 November 2026MILINX, US serial 75559330. Filed by Milinx Marketing Group Inc. First use claimed from September 1997, use in commerce from November 1997. Registered 22 August 2000 (registration 2,378,605).
    https://tsdr.uspto.gov/statusview/sn75559330
  • Canadian Intellectual Property Office, Canadian Trademarks Database, filed 29 October 1998; record read 14 November 2026CREDIT ASSURE, Canadian application 894941. Filed by Assured Card Corporation (a corporation of Delaware) on a proposed-use basis, for “Consumer lending services namely providing lines of credit”, class 36. Assignment to Milinx Business Group Inc. recorded 27 December 2000. Approved 23 March 2001, advertised 25 April 2001, allowed 12 July 2001, abandoned 30 January 2002.
    https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cipo/trademark-search/894941
  • USPTO, Trademark Status and Document Retrieval, filed 2 November 1998; record read 14 November 2026CREDIT ASSURE, US serial 75580649. Filed by Assured Card Corporation on an intent-to-use basis, claiming priority from Canadian application 894941 of 29 October 1998. Consumer lending services, class 36. Abandoned (date of abandonment 30 October 2003, recorded 18 December 2003); the owner of record was still Assured Card Corporation.
    https://tsdr.uspto.gov/statusview/sn75580649

Archived pages

Captures held by the Internet Archive. Each address opens the capture of the date shown.

Patent application

The Canadian patent application filed by Milinx.

  • Google Patents, filed 10 March 2000; published 10 September 2001CA 2,300,347, “Client-centered secure e-commerce”. A Canadian patent application filed by Milinx Business Group, Inc. on 10 March 2000 and published on 10 September 2001. It is an application, not a granted patent.
    https://patents.google.com/patent/CA2300347A1/en

Accounts

Accounts given after the events. They are named wherever this site relies on them.

  • assuredcard.co, the record site of Assured CardAssured Card: the company’s own account. Assured Card’s product and programme in the company’s own words, including the credit line that covered a missed payment.
    https://assuredcard.co/
  • his own account, given for this record, November 2026; not a document of the timeMaynard L. Dokken’s account. The source for the sentences marked with it: how CreditAssure was formed; the move from enrolment on paper to a closed system from 1996; the development of the Assured Credit backend and on-site terminal from 1997; and Assured Credit as the name of that development work.

Contact

Questions about this record: contact@milinx.co.

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