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<div dir="auto">Hi, Ken,</div>
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<div dir="auto">Thanks for your perseverance.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Curiously, when reading your email on my Samsung Android cellphone, the character you describe as the box symbol appears as the Euro symbol in black on a yellow (highlighted) background.</div>
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<div dir="auto" style="font-size:85%; color:#575757">-Gerry gerry@elman.com </div>
<div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(87,87,87)"><font face="serif" style="">Gerry J. Elman, Elman IP</font></div>
<div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(87,87,87)"><font face="serif" style="">6117 St James Pl, Denton, TX 76210</font>
<div dir="auto" style="font-size:85%">office ph. 610-892-9942 mobile 610-909-2468</div>
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<div>From: Ken Boone via E-trademarks <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com> </div>
<div>Date: 4/7/24 12:34 PM (GMT-06:00) </div>
<div>To: "E-Trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com" <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com> </div>
<div>Cc: Ken Boone <boondogles@hotmail.com> </div>
<div>Subject: [E-trademarks] Standard Character \u20ac Watch: This Is W\u20acήD\u2122 </div>
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Admittedly, it has been a while since I've looked for occurrences of the \u20ac (the Euro character, the standard character with decimal value 128), in part because the two searches</div>
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WD:( *\u20ac* ) AND LD:true</div>
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( WD:/.*\\u20ac.*/ ) AND LD:true</div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">both only retrieve a single trademark record, namely
</span><span style="font-family:PublicSans,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:16px; color:rgb(33,37,41); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">98057893</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> with
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><b>\u20ac</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><b>MPRESS</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> with
the word mark entry. Both TM Search and TSDR show </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><b>\u20ac</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><b>MPRESS</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> as
the word mark entry, though TSDR indicates that <i>No Image exists for this case</i> (which is a little weird).</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Today, I retrieved from my archives a list of trademarks with the
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">\u20ac</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> character in the word mark. Several
of those trademarks are now dead, but reviewing the live trademarks, things got W\u20acήD\u2122 (</span><span style="font-family:PublicSans,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:16px; color:rgb(33,37,41); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">88618843</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">,
though WEIRD is the current word mark entry). </span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">For example, TM Search shows
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><b>ANYTHING THAT PRODUCES (C)</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><b>\u20ac</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><b>URRENCY</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> as
the word mark entry for 88904222 (a standard character mark), but toggle to TSDR and
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><b>ANYTHING THAT PRODUCES (C)</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">\u20ac</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><b>URRENCY</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> is
the word mark entry, where the expected occurrence of the </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>\u20ac</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> instead
has a </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,255); background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">\u2b97</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> (box
symbol) displayed. Huh? (I hope that symbol doesn't get corrupted via email.)</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Then there's 90458807 with
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><b>BAN</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><b>\u20ac</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><b>K$</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> as
the word mark on TM Search, but toggle to TSDR and see </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><b>BAN</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">\u20ac</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><b>K$</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> as
the word mark (that </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,255); background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">\u2b97</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> box
phenomenon again)</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">, plus that box symbol appears in the design code description
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><b>24.17.05 - Pound sterling symbol (£); Yen (¥) and Euro (</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><b>\u20ac</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><b>)</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">. </span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Exporting my TM Search records, only
</span><span style="font-family:PublicSans,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:16px; color:rgb(33,37,41); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">98057893</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> with
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><b>\u20ac</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><b>MPRESS</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> with
the word mark entry</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> included the
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">\u20ac</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> character
in the word mark</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">. The
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,255); background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">\u2b97</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> box
phenomenon did not occur. No character appeared in the exported Excel file where the
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,255); background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">\u2b97</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> box
appeared.</span></div>
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I've seen this unexpected behavior with both Edge and Chrome as my browser.</div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">Happ</span><span style="font-size:10pt">¥</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> Trad</span><span style="font-size:10pt">\u20ac</span><span style="font-size:12pt">ma</span><span style="font-size:10pt">®</span><span style="font-size:12pt">king,</span></div>
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