Re:Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)
by EspressoGPT on Monday July 24, 2023 @07:58AM
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Isn't a trademark always tied to its respective business domain?
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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
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Wait until you find out about "apple" and "windows".
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.
> 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.
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
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> 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...