Trademark Policy

You are responsible for making sure that what you make, download, share or sell with MakerWizard does not infringe trademarks, protected designs, trade dress or similar rights. That covers:

• designs drawn from a sentence that names or describes a brand, a character or a team;
• images you upload to trace that contain such elements;
• designs you download from Explore;
• anything you build on top of them, sold or given away.

The fact that the tool produced a file that contains or resembles a mark gives you no right to use that mark. We cannot grant rights we do not own. Before you sell something that carries another company's mark, get that company's permission, which for popular brands usually means an official licence.

These are the requests that get makers' listings removed and, sometimes, a lawyer's letter:

• a sports club's crest or a league logo on a tumbler, a sign or a keychain;
• a film, game or cartoon character on a child's name plaque;
• a car maker's emblem on a garage sign or a key fob;
• a fashion house's monogram as an engraved pattern;
• a band's logo, or a slogan that a company has registered.

Writing “inspired by” or “not official” in a listing does not make it allowed. “For personal use” is a weaker defence than most people think once money changes hands.

Your own name, your customer's name, your own logo, generic subjects (a fox, a lighthouse, a wedding date), and a customer's own logo when they tell you they own it. Naming a product truthfully to say what yours fits (“strap for a … watch”) is normally allowed, as is commentary or parody in some countries; the rules differ from country to country and the edges are narrow. If a sale depends on it, ask a lawyer who knows trademarks. Nothing on this page is legal advice.

• counterfeits: fake logos, labels, tags or packaging;
• passing yourself off as a brand, or suggesting a brand endorses you;
• designs meant to confuse buyers about who made a product;
• unlicensed merchandise of brands, teams, characters or artists.

This is part of the rules of use in the Terms of Service.

An automated filter refuses some briefs: sexual content, content that endangers minors, gore, hatred, plainly illegal requests. It does not look for brand names, logos or characters. We keep no database of trademarks, we do no clearance searches, and a design passing our file check says something about how it will cut, nothing about who owns what it shows.

Explore shows what makers chose to share. A shared design may contain elements that belong to someone else. Downloading it gives you the maker's permission to use their design, and no right to anything in it that was never theirs to give.

Write to legal@makerwizard.com with:

1. the mark, and where it is registered, with the registration number if there is one;
2. the exact address (URL) of the design on MakerWizard;
3. why the use infringes;
4. your name, email and your authority to act for the owner;
5. a statement that you believe in good faith that the information is accurate and complete.

We handle it as described in the Copyright and Takedown Policy: a person reviews it, we remove what is clearly infringing, we tell the maker why, and they can answer. Accounts that infringe repeatedly are suspended and then closed.

xTool, LightBurn, Glowforge, Cricut, Inkscape and Illustrator are named on MakerWizard to say which software our files open in. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google and Grok are named, with their marks, on links that open those assistants with a question about MakerWizard already typed. All of these names and marks belong to their owners; MakerWizard is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any of them.