Andrew Ulysses Baker

@fuzzystudios1 @Sirlin Before naming your game, I recommend searching TESS (USPTO's Trademark Electronic Search System) for your title to ensure that it or a similar title is not already trademarked in the category of games: tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f…

@Sirlin I am currently designing a game, and I need to get some info. Is it true that you own the trademark to the japanese word "yomi"? Because I've heard about you sending cease and desists to both a fighting game and a hack and slash.

@Corrodias @snuffysam @AlienRopeBurn @MarcDWyz @Sirlin The first link is to the name of a developer. The second link is to a game that is clearly identified as "Last Guardian 2" and happens to have the word "Yomi" in its title. Regardless of prior use in a product category, any name can be trademarked.

Deranged game dev @Sirlin, maker of Fantasy Strike, trademarks a common Japanese word "yomi" and proceeds to DMCA takedown small indie games for Christmas without warning. Yomi Hustle and Yomi Domini have been targeted. No signs of stopping. Have to try hard to be this sick.

@CaptainNovaVT @MarcDWyz I just did a rudimentary search and found many instances of Capcom shutting down infringing fan projects, so I do not know why you are asserting the opposite.

@failratePrime @MarcDWyz It's case by case with most companies when and if the studios get involved with fanart/fan projects. Historically Capcom is more encouraging of fan projects.

Yomi Domini has returned to Steam with a new name! It was the victim of a sneaky surprise taken down by desperate and shitty game dev @Sirlin.

@snuffysam @KlaessCulptures @MarcDWyz @Sirlin Game companies send trademark infringement notices and C&Ds all of the time. To argue otherwise is either coming from a place of ignorance or malice.

@failratePrime @KlaessCulptures @MarcDWyz @Sirlin Not the trademarking part, the removal part.

@Corrodias @snuffysam @AlienRopeBurn @MarcDWyz @Sirlin Also, are you unsympathetic that Sirlin has his livelihood riding on Yomi 2? He is not some giant megacorporation. He is just as small as the other parties in this now resolved trademark infringement situation.

@CaptainNovaVT @MarcDWyz It is also reasonable to believe they simply have never heard of this particular game.

@Corrodias @snuffysam @AlienRopeBurn @MarcDWyz @Sirlin Even this is not true. I literally just used it to get the registration date of YOMI. You seem very angry, but that should not grant you permission to state falsehoods.

@Corrodias @snuffysam @AlienRopeBurn @MarcDWyz @Sirlin I assume Devolver Digital performs the appropriate due diligence to ensure that their titles are not infringing prior to publishing, because that is table stakes. Also, why would he submit anything to Devolver? They are not the parties that infringed on his trademark.

@CaptainNovaVT @MarcDWyz Trademark law does not care if it is a fan game or a commercial product. For example, gateworld.net/news/2022/12/s…

@failratePrime @MarcDWyz ...You do realize that Pocket Fighter EX is a non profit fan game right fair citizen? This isn't really a gotcha

@MarcDWyz All of the titles that were served with trademark infringement notifications released long after the YOMI trademark was registered. Additionally, the developers of FOOTSIES should register their trademark: uspto.gov/trademarks/app…

Get it before Sirlin trademarks "footsies" too lmfao

@MarcDWyz BTW, Pocket Fighter EX is also clearly infringing on CAPCOM's trademark (POCKET FIGHTER Goods and ServicesIC 041. US 100 101 107).

And let me be clear; Yomi Hustle and Yomi Domini did NOTHING wrong! And them complying with this absurd legal threat is also NOT wrong! They're 100% the victims and may have had no choice but to comply. Doing whatever was necessary to get out of the takedown was the right move.

@MarcDWyz They did not search via the free USPTO TESS to determine if their trademarks were infringing. That is what they did wrong. This is table stakes for putting any product into the market. They complied by changing the names of their projects, which is all that is required.

@rottingpastry1 @MarcDWyz @Sirlin "Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi" is very clearly not infringing, because the primary mark is "Undernauts". If they were instead "Yomi: Labyrinth of Undernauts", that would be very clearly infringing.

@Pugs_Wellington @RunDaltonRun @MarcDWyz @Sirlin It is irrelevant how common a word is when registering trademark. He is enforcing it specifically as it pertains to his trademark re: board games and video games. He has enforced it broadly against all known entities distributing games with the name "Yomi <Extension>".

@RunDaltonRun @failratePrime @MarcDWyz @Sirlin How is it different? He took a common japanese word and is enforcing it different readings of it that don't pertain to his use. Also, real brave for him to enforce it exclusively on indie devs who can't afford to fight back as opposed to the corporately backed game trek to yomi.

@MeToWa It is not. One sends a trademark infringement notice.

@failratePrime Hi, you seem to know a lot. Can you explain how it is legal to file a Copyright takedown over a Trademark dispute. Thanks.

It is unfortunate that I have to keep saying this, but I'm begging everyone: please don't speak for me. Sirlin and I have been on good terms and have been talking quite a bit since this whole thing started. Let me set the record straight here...