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Re:Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some user... by sparky_z on Thursday August 12, 2021 @06:03PM (#28162144)
Not a lawyer, but if the Unicode Consortium even tried to add their logo to the specification, wouldn't Twitter have to actively sue to stop them or risk having their trademark genericized?

Gut check: are there currently any trademarked symbols in Unicode? I can't think of any offhand, and it I find it difficult to imagine it happening for precisely that reason.

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Re:Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some user... by janc_ on Friday August 13, 2021 @04:04AM (#28166620)
The well-known laundry symbols are trademarked apparently, and while there is a proposal to include them into Unicode, this might in fact be blocking it…

These are trademarked for other reasons than a company logo though, and I don't really see the point in including company logos (which might change or disappear tomorrow if they go bankrupt or are taken over by another company—and then what with the company logo in Unicode?).

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