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Trademark Usage Guidelines

BeamNG Trademark Usage Guidelines

BeamNG GmbH is specialized in the development of physics simulation-based software and is best known for the vehicle game BeamNG.drive, and BeamNG.tech, the simulation platform for autonomous driving research. A special feature of this software is a custom soft-body physics engine, allowing for faithful simulation of the kinematic properties of our vehicle models and enabling realistic replication of their driving behaviour.

The following trademark usage guidelines shall ensure proper use of all BeamNG’s registered or unregistered trademarks (hereinafter “the BeamNG Trademarks”). These Trademarks Usage Guidelines apply to all BeamNG Trademarks, including but not limited to the Trademarks explicitly listed below in Annex 1. Any use of the BeamNG Trademarks must be in accordance with these Trademarks Usage Guidelines.

The following trademark usage guidelines shall ensure proper use of all BeamNG’s registered or unregistered trademarks (hereinafter “the BeamNG Trademarks”). These Trademarks Usage Guidelines apply to all BeamNG Trademarks, including but not limited to the Trademarks explicitly listed below in Annex 1. Any use of the BeamNG Trademarks must be in accordance with these Trademarks Usage Guidelines.

§ 1 Referential Use

Third parties may use the word trademarks of BeamNG to reference BeamNG’s software, technologies, and services (“Referential Use”). This applies only to the word trademarks of BeamNG, but not to the logos or the figurative BeamNG Trademarks. You are also free to express your views on the BeamNG products, positive or negative, as long as your feedback does not contravene accepted principles of morality.

You shall accurately display the relationship between BeamNG and the third party within such Referential Use. You must properly ensure that such Referential Use does not create any risk of confusion about the owner of the BeamNG Trademarks.

By any Referential Use of the BeamNG Trademarks, you acknowledge that BeamNG is the sole owner of the BeamNG Trademarks and agree not to interfere with BeamNG’s rights in the BeamNG Trademarks.

§ 2 Prior Consent

For any other use of the BeamNG Trademarks apart from Referential Use, third parties must obtain the prior written consent from BeamNG before using the BeamNG Trademarks.

In order to ask for such consent to use the BeamNG Trademarks, please con-tact our media and press department media@beamng.gmbh

§ 3 Appropriate Use

When using a registered BeamNG Trademark as listed below in Annex 1, you shall use the appropriate legal symbol ®, e.g. “BeamNG.drive®”.

§ 4 Examples of DO’s

Once you have obtained prior written consent from BeamNG to use one or several of the BeamNG Trademarks you must, inter alia, ensure that the following non-exhaustive conditions are met, unless stipulated differently in your written li-cense agreement with BeamNG:

  • a. You shall use such BeamNG Trademark exactly as it is written and dis-played in the current Trademark List (Annex 1), in particular
    • For any wordmarks, use the correct spelling and capitalization and
    • For any logos, use the correct colour, size, and appearance.
  • b. You shall use the most current version of the BeamNG Trademarks and in particular the logos as shown in Annex 1.
  • c. You shall always keep a sufficient distance between your trademarks, names and/or signs and the BeamNG Trademarks in order to avoid any likelihood of confusion and shall refrain from combining the respective trademarks and/or signs.
  • d. You shall use the BeamNG Trademarks only for the scope, the products and/or the services as expressly provided in the written consent of BeamNG.

§ 5 Examples of DON’Ts

The following “DON’Ts” are a non-exhaustive enumeration. BeamNG reserves its rights to object to any use of BeamNG Trademarks that it deems inappropriate or unlawful.

  • a. Apart from any referential use, you shall not use any BeamNG Trade-marks for goods or services without any prior written consent from BeamNG.
  • b. You shall not exceed the scope of the prior written consent regarding the trademark use, and you shall use only the BeamNG Trademark for which the consent has been provided and not for any other of the BeamNG Trademarks.
  • c. You shall not use the BeamNG Trademark for products or services for which the trademark is not registered or protected.
  • d. You shall not modify the BeamNG Trademarks, particularly
    • do not change or distort the size, colour, or the appearance of the BeamNG logos in any way (for example, by adding your own design elements or changing the font, colours, or size),
    • do not alter the BeamNG logos,
    • do not add words directly around the BeamNG logos,
    • do not overlap the BeamNG logos with shapes or photos,
    • do not use the single elements of combined BeamNG Trade-marks separately and do not shorten BeamNG Trademarks in any other way,
    • do not use old versions of BeamNG Trademarks,
    • do not combine BeamNG Trademarks with your name, your trademarks, generic terms, symbols, numbers, or respective other supplements and
    • do not abbreviate BeamNG Trademarks.
  • e. Apart from any referential use, you shall not use the BeamNG Trade-marks more prominently than your own trademarks, company name, trade name(s), product name(s), service name(s) or other name(s).
  • f. You shall not create the misleading impression that the BeamNG Trade-marks are your product names or your trademarks.
  • g. You shall not assert rights over the BeamNG Trademarks whether by incorporating BeamNG Trademarks into your own product or service names, trademarks, logos, company names, or domain names or seeking a trademark or domain name registration for the BeamNG Trademarks or single elements of the BeamNG Trademarks.
  • h. You shall not use or register a trademark, domain name, or logo that imitates or could be confused with the BeamNG Trademarks.
  • i. You shall not create any account, including but not limited to social media accounts, using the BeamNG Trademarks.
  • j. You shall avoid any risk of confusion about the owner of the BeamNG Trademarks and shall indicate at an appropriate position that the used BeamNG Trademark is a registered trademark of BeamNG GmbH.
  • k. You shall not manufacture, advertise, sell, distribute, or otherwise give away any merchandise items bearing the BeamNG Trademarks without any prior explicit written consent or trademark license from BeamNG.
  • l. You shall not use the BeamNG Trademarks in a way that might mislead as to affiliation, imply endorsement of other, or portray BeamNG in a negative way.
  • m. You shall not use or associate the BeamNG Trademarks with any vulgar, obscene, indecent, or unlawful material.
  • n. You shall not create any likelihood of confusion with the BeamNG products and packaging look, including their distinctive graphics, icons, and colour combinations.

Annex 1: Trademark List

BeamNG Trademark List:

  1. EU trademark No. 013 356 019, registered for goods in class 09 and services in class 42;
  2. UK Registration No. 00 913 356 019, registered for in class 09 and services in class 42;
  3. International Registration No. 1 236 650, registered for goods in class 09 and services in class 42;
  4. EU trademark No. 018 357 683 registered for goods in class 09 and services in class 42;
  5. International Registration trademark No. 1 609 600 registered for goods in class 09 and services in class 42;
  6. EU trademark No. 018 357 678 “BeamNG.drive”, registered for goods in class 09 and services in class 42;
  7. International Registration No. 1 604 989 “BeamNG.drive”, registered for goods in class 09 and services in class 42;
  8. EU trademark No. 018 357 674 “BeamNG.tech”, registered for goods in class 09 and services in class 42 and
  9. International Registration No. 1 605 152 “BeamNG.tech”, registered for goods in class 09 and services in class 42.