Any official word on the use of the steam logo?

[mLegion]

The valve store still only sells game branded stuff and no valve or steam branded stuff, is there any official word on whether or not it's okay to have one of those custom mouse printing companies make a mousemat for you with the steam logo on it?

[Alexalmighty]

well it wont really matter on your end but the company can get into big trouble selling anything with the steam logo on it without valves okay

[mLegion]

Yeah but it still that the official steam store sells accessories for a bunch of games yet nothing with a valve or steam logo on it.
Steam is aware that Steam and Valve are brands right? Where are the mousepads and mugs and towels with steam/valve logos on them?

[Alexalmighty]

Originally posted by mLegion:

Yeah but it still that the official steam store sells accessories for a bunch of games yet nothing with a valve or steam logo on it.
Steam is aware that Steam and Valve are brands right? Where are the mousepads and mugs and towels with steam/valve logos on them?

because they dont make mousepads or mugs are really anything else

[Air]

Or course, it goes without speaking that the logo can not be commercialized by anyone other than Valve without permission.
However, if you order a custom mouse pad for yourself, it should be fine.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Air🐺:

Or course, it goes without speaking that the logo can not be commercialized by anyone other than Valve without permission.
However, if you order a custom mouse pad for yourself, it should be fine.

^This

Shouldn't an issue. Just like there are tons of sites that sell custom t-shirts and other apparel and u can put any logo on it u wish via design submission. Since it is on a personal per-order basis and not for mass production and/or commercial re-production; it should be perfectly fine.

For official Valve Gear; they have a separate store for this:
http://store.valvesoftware.com

For other game related gear, look at the various branded sites who sell Mouse Pads, Keyboard, Mouse, Headsets; etc. Such as Razer, SteelSeries and many others.

[chiefputsilao✖️ping]

just parodize valve and call your logo 'steamy'.
valve will likely ignore you unless you sell items with copyrighted trademarks/brands belong to valve/steam.

many t-shirt printing companies in the philippines do parody of many brands/trademarks like 'intel inside' being turned into 'inutil inside' (tagalog, meaning inutile inside).

afaik, intel did not yet ask for cease/desist order or sue the companies.

[SundownKid]

Originally posted by Air🐺:

Or course, it goes without speaking that the logo can not be commercialized by anyone other than Valve without permission.
However, if you order a custom mouse pad for yourself, it should be fine.