Foehammer’s Anvil

Yep, that’s right: Foehammer^TM is mine by trademark, registration pending.

I’m just making this blog entry today (and reworked my logo) to reflect the true and fair nature of my continued use of and claim to the name.

“You can establish rights in a mark based on legitimate use of the mark.”

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

And you kids thought that the guy in Halo was me, eh? Sorry, he’s the pretender to the throne.

In fact, let me get into some detail about the video game Halo in which a character happens to have my exact moniker. I didn’t give it much thought really when the game was released, but I later became aware of the usage of Foehammer. I suppose if I wanted to be a jerk, I could now impose my trademark concerns upon the makers of Halo, but it seems harmless enough to me — nothing but a coincidence. After all, my nickname was inspired by a book. I just want to make it clear here and now though that if for some odd reason Microsoft or Bungie want to try to impose trademark rights on the name Foehammer, then we’re going to have a legal wrangle. And I have the edge and the legal rights.

Domains: For various reasons related to my Foehammer trademark, I ask if you’re going to start a site that you not use “Foehammer” in the domain name. I’m not a lawyer, but my neighbor is, and she tells me I have to do this to preserve my trademark.

There, now that policy is public. But, again, I’m not going to heavily enforce this if the name Foehammer is used in good fun (example: www.foehammerguild.com ), but I’m stating these things so that in the event that I have someone use my trademark in a manner that I find out of the realm of good taste or with deliberate intent to somehow harm myself or my site or my trademark, I may then take the necessary legal action.

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