[5] Born Timothy Bull,[6] TYM has changed his name by deed poll.
[11] He also writes regular columns various newspapers[12][13][14][11] including The Canberra Times[15] and The Sydney Morning Herald.
In 2004, Tim the Yowie Man won a legal case against Cadbury, a popular British confectionery company.
[16][17] Cadbury had claimed that his moniker was too similar to their range of Yowie confectionery.
[6] In deciding the case, a Trade Mark Oppositions Hearing Officer ruled that she was "satisfied that a substantial portion of the Australian public would know of the dictionary meaning of yowie and be able to distinguish between use of the term in this sense, and use of the term by (Cadbury).