User blog comment:Slimebeast/Vincent V Cava trademarked "Creepypasta"/@comment-25148755-20160209141447/@comment-5943448-20160209183238

Basically, how it works is that he registered a legal document with the U.S. Government falsely stating that he "owns" the term "Creepypasta". The only reason to register a Trademark is if you want to defend it, so it looks like he doesn't want others using the word on books. (Keep in mind that would include digital "Books".)

In order to overturn the Trademark, there would have to be a big legal case, etc. and the Judge would have to be convinced he didn't own the word. I sincerely doubt anyone in the Creepypasta community has the money lying around to do something like that, so we're essentially all going to be at the mercy of whether or not he decides to enforce it.