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Re:Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F) by EspressoGPT on Monday July 24, 2023 @07:58AM (#36846472)
Isn't a trademark always tied to its respective business domain?
Re:Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F) by samwillis on Monday July 24, 2023 @08:07AM (#36846574)
Yes, but those "classes" can be quite wide, there is for example no way they could trademark it for "Class 9: Computer and software products and electrical and scientific products."
Re:Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F) by Turing_Machine on Monday July 24, 2023 @08:38AM (#36847019)
Wait until you find out about "apple" and "windows".
Re:Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F) by samwillis on Monday July 24, 2023 @08:44AM (#36847087)
Apple and windows are trademarks for software. You would be unable to get the trademark "Apple" for a company selling fruit, or "windows" for a window fitter, and neither could Apple or Microsoft.

𝕏 is a pre-existing symbol used by, and part of a standard character set for, software. You could probably get a trademark on it for a company selling apples, but I highly doubt you could for a software company.

Re:Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F) by bawolff on Monday July 24, 2023 @08:52AM (#36847187)
> 𝕏 is a pre-existing symbol used by

"used by" is pretty debatable. Its a fairly obscure character. I don't think being in unicode by itself is sufficient enough to count.

Re:Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F) by _flux on Monday July 24, 2023 @10:45AM (#36848894)
There is also https://www.x.org/ which seems quite slow. I wonder if it's receiving more traffic than usually..
Re:Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F) by denton-scratch on Monday July 24, 2023 @09:06AM (#36847350)
> its respective business domain

Or to any number of business domains. See the trademark registration for "Wagatha Christie":

https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00...