Oct 5, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min · 11 segments
Creepspace #1 A story about a cursed laptop that isn't really about a cursed laptop... Promises promises. (BONUS Witch inside!) MUSIC: "Mysterious Lights" Bryan Teoh (bryanteoh.com) \[under…
I was talking to my father about this, which is relevant because whilst he's retired now he used to be a patent and trademark attorney.
That's where you as the owner of your product and the trademark are registering that so that you can have a monopoly on that kind of a product.
And this is useful if other people are passing off their product as yours.
If you have a product that you're trying to sell because it has some unique quality and someone else is trying to steal your brand's goodwill by selling a product with your trademark even though they have no right to it, then that is passing off.
But you don't even need to register a trademark in order to use some mark in the course of trade.
That's what's called a common law trademark, is when you use some mark or picture or in some cases even style.
There's even been smells and sounds, although they're harder to define.
But anything that is used to define your product in the course of trade, and especially one that makes it unique to other products, is your trademark.
And that's what Chapter Spooks do in order to collect these books together.
But the reason why it's so unique is because Chapter Spooks is a marketing gimmick.
Some author wasn't saying, "Hey, what if I write a whole bunch of books with different plots that aren't connected?" No.
This was created by publishing houses because they had writers who were writing all these books, and they had different genres and different demographics.
And they found that some genres for some demographics, like horror stories for teenagers or sci-fi for young kids, were selling really well.
But for some reason, even though some books had the same kind of idea, some weren't selling as well as others.
But these publishers knew that if you had a series of books they sold a lot better, because if you buy the first book you wanna see what happens next, you buy the next book.
And it's basically the same idea throughout all the books, and that's why people like them.
So what if we did the same thing with our books? So they did that for horror books.
I was talking to my father about this, which is relevant because whilst he's retired now he used to be a patent and trademark attorney.
That's where you as the owner of your product and the trademark are registering that so that you can have a monopoly on that kind of a product.
And this is useful if other people are passing off their product as yours.
If you have a product that you're trying to sell because it has some unique quality and someone else is trying to steal your brand's goodwill by selling a product with your trademark even though they have no right to it, then that is passing off.
But you don't even need to register a trademark in order to use some mark in the course of trade.
That's what's called a common law trademark, is when you use some mark or picture or in some cases even style.
There's even been smells and sounds, although they're harder to define.
But anything that is used to define your product in the course of trade, and especially one that makes it unique to other products, is your trademark.
And that's what Chapter Spooks do in order to collect these books together.
But the reason why it's so unique is because Chapter Spooks is a marketing gimmick.
Some author wasn't saying, "Hey, what if I write a whole bunch of books with different plots that aren't connected?" No.
This was created by publishing houses because they had writers who were writing all these books, and they had different genres and different demographics.
And they found that some genres for some demographics, like horror stories for teenagers or sci-fi for young kids, were selling really well.
But for some reason, even though some books had the same kind of idea, some weren't selling as well as others.
But these publishers knew that if you had a series of books they sold a lot better, because if you buy the first book you wanna see what happens next, you buy the next book.
And it's basically the same idea throughout all the books, and that's why people like them.
So what if we did the same thing with our books? So they did that for horror books.
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