🛡️ Trademark & Brand Protection Notice

:locked: Trademark & Branding Statement

The Captain Dumbass™ is a pending trademark of Dennis Ayotte.

This forum, along with related branding, visuals, and themes, represent a distinctive creative identity that blends humor, technology, and community. To protect this vision and prevent misuse, a trademark filing has been officially submitted and is on record.

Why we filed:

  • To preserve the tone and intent of the brand.
  • To prevent unauthorized duplication or impersonation.
  • To ensure future opportunities (events, merch, partnerships) have a solid legal foundation.

What this doesn’t mean:

  • We’re not corporate. We’re still sarcastic as hell.
  • You won’t get cease-and-desisted for sharing memes or participating.
  • We won’t restrict fair-use commentary, satire, or engagement.

What this does mean:

  • Unauthorized use of the name or logo for commercial or misleading purposes is prohibited.
  • We’ll take action if someone tries to clone, rip off, or impersonate this brand.

Thanks for being part of something weird and meaningful. This step helps us keep it that way.

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Trademark filing in progress. All rights reserved. If it compiles, we ship it. If it crashes, we quote it.