Stopping the LitRPG Trademark...

With Portal Books in addition to Magic Dome, I'm going to be curious to see what happens.

 

Oh. That's getting interesting.

 

Simon Vale from Magic Dome Books already said they'd fight it if it ever went to principle register. Simon posted a few times in the FB group with screenshots, dates, and more showing that they used the term "in the right context" well before Kong started writing. I don't think it's going to come to that, but it does effectively keep Amazon from adding it as a genre so it screws authors in the genre from ever getting the same level of recognition in genre as other books.

 

I was just gonna post that! I can't imagine something thinking this was a good idea.

 

Yea, I don't know how she managed to get both of those Trademarks. It's one thing to Trademark a specific font, style, etc. in a specific genre, specifically with a series title. Trademark away on that!

But... to trademark a word. A word used in any capacity on a book in an entire genre where the word is probably commonplace... that's just jacked up.

 

And this is why I think we need to bust our butts to keep LitRPG from the Principal Register.

 

That reminds me, I need to put out some more t-shirt designs.

 

You should design one that says “Cocky(tm) Bastard” on it.

 

Paul, why don't we have a ROFLMAO emoji?

 

I died... this gif was the perfect representation. Well played sir, well played.

 

Relevant to all our interests:

 

Been talking to the guys on twitter since last night, interesting... to say the least, watch this space.