According to a new report, the trademark dispute that the controversial The Day Before is involved in comes from a Korean calendar app of the same name.
Last month, The Day Before developer Fntastic announced it would be delaying the game from March to November, apparently because of a trademark dispute filed by a private individual, meaning the game’s Steam page was blocked. Fntastic later tweeted that, “The so-called ‘owner’ of the rights to the title is the creator of the calendar app, which has nothing to do with the games category.” In a response to Eurogamer, the developer of the calendar app confirmed it owns the trademark rights to the app’s name “The Day Before,” and is “taking measures to protect trademark rights.”
“We first distributed the app under the name ‘The Day Before’ in 2010 to provide anniversary count app services used in many countries around the world,” the developer told Eurogamer. “We hold trademark rights to the app’s name ‘The Day Before’ and have so far recorded over 40m downloads.