the day before developer fntastic is still fighting a trademark dispute with a calendar appwhilst we found out earlier this month that the day before had been delisted from steam due to a copyright issue the developer of the calendar app has now gone public about the dispute confirming that it is taking measures to protect its trademark for an app that has exceeded 40 million downloads since the app launched under the same name the day before almost 15 years agowe 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 app developer said in a statement to eurogamer we hold trademark rights to the apps name the day before and have so far recorded over 40m downloads since the trademark registration in korea in 2015 we have held the right registered in the name of the day before ceo lee sunjae knowing that the game of the same name was produced we are taking measures to protect trademark rightsthe statement goes on to confirm that it holds the trademark in a variety of territories including korea the united states china russia japan vietnam and the european union and insists it wants to solve the trademark problem as soon as possible and continue to protect the app so that users can use it without worryingits just the latest in a long and bizarre line of events with the games community moderators not even being sure if the day before is real it does however confirm that at least the copyright claim is real something some people had been doubting toofntastic recently released a short dev vlog as part of its ongoing life at fntastic video series but all its really done is confuse fans looking forward to the game even more as we summarized at the time the sixminute video consists of old if technically current gameplay some much older footage from prealpha prototypes and brief shots of narrator dana soltangazinova a fntastic communications team member but no other devs even though its a dev vlogour team as always is not afraid of difficulties and constantly moves forward the video concluded all in all weve been creating the day before for four years its been a long and exciting journey and we believe that after the games release well give people faith that in this life if you persevere toward a dream it will come true despite all the obstacles and doubts in your path until then we will continue doing our best to finalize the game and release it on the 10th of november were using the month sic we have to make the day before exactly the way weve always imagined it to be theres a lot to get excited about in gaming this year here are the upcoming games of 2023 we still cant wait to play