<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">You can search alpha through omega? That's fascinating.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Cheers,</span></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:tahoma;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:16px"> </span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:tahoma;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="color:rgb(255,102,0);font-size:12pt">Sam<span> Castree, III</span></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:tahoma;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="color:rgb(255,102,0);font-size:12pt"><br></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:medium"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="color:rgb(255,102,0);font-size:12pt"><span><i>Sam Castree Law, LLC</i></span></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="color:rgb(255,102,0)"><span><span style="font-size:12pt"><i>3421 W. Elm St.</i></span></span></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="color:rgb(255,102,0)"><span><span style="font-size:12pt"><i>McHenry, IL 60050</i></span></span></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="color:rgb(255,102,0)"><span><span style="font-size:12pt"><i>(815) 344-6300</i></span></span></span></font></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 2:27\u202fPM Ken Boone via E-trademarks <<a href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg3606896168845693772">
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<span style="font-size:12pt">The search </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(12,100,192)"><b>WD:/.*[\u03b1-\u03c9].*/ AND ST:true</b></span><span style="font-size:12pt"> provides some other atypical search results. For the 8 trademarks returned, all
have a variation of </span><span style="font-size:16pt"><b>µ</b></span><span style="font-size:12pt"> - the micro sign standard character with a decimal value of 181 - in the drawings. However, notice that the wordmark entries all begin with \u039c - the Unicode
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98761636</div>
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2024-09-20</div>
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98671363</div>
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2024-07-29</div>
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\u039cFIDELITY</div>
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98671353</div>
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924</div>
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98671333</div>
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2024-07-29</div>
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\u039cCOOLING</div>
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924</div>
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98278543</div>
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2023-11-20</div>
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\u039cTHORACOTOMY</div>
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924</div>
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98168957</div>
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2023-09-07</div>
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\u039cMIST</div>
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924</div>
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97836045</div>
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2023-03-13</div>
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\u039cDRIVE NEXUS</div>
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924</div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">If you copy/paste the first letter \u039c of the first (and presumably any other) trademark listed above into the search bar with the * search operator to form the search
</span><span style="color:rgb(12,100,192);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>WD:*\u039c* AND ST:true</b></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, instead of getting the multitude of live standard character marks
with the standard letter M somewhere in the wordmark, you get the same 8 trademarks of this list that have the Unicode letter
<b>\u039c </b>(with decimal value 924 - part of the Greek character set of Unicode characters). Conversely, the search
</span><span style="color:rgb(12,100,192);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>WD:*µ* AND ST:true</b></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> with the standard character
<b>µ</b> from the standard character list retrieves 140 live standard character marks with µ occurring in the drawings and wordmark entries. Quite a difference, huh? And I'll bet you haven't been searching both
<b>\u039c </b>and<b> µ </b>for your<b> LOC </b>searches of the <b>µ</b> (micro sign).</span></div>
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Happy Trademarking,</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, February 15, 2025 11:27 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [E-trademarks] Try Not To Laugh! 99028710 - \u0411\u042a\u041b\u0413\u0410\u0420\u0418\u041a\u0410 (A Standard Character Mark)</font>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">Introducing 99028710, the standard character mark </span>
<span style="font-size:14pt">\u0411\u042a\u041b\u0413\u0410\u0420\u0418\u041a\u0410</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> filed 5 February 2025.</span></div>
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\u0411\u042a\u041b\u0413\u0410\u0420\u0418\u041a\u0410</div>
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Standard Character Claim:</div>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Yes. The mark consists of standard characters without claim to any particular font style, size, or color.</span></td>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">4 - STANDARD CHARACTER MARK</span></td>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Bulgarian characters in this mark transliterate to BULGARICA and this has no meaning in a foreign language.</span></td>
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Based on this new application, I must conclude that the new Trademark Center electronic application system does NOT check that the characters submitted for a standard character mark actually occur on the USPTO's standard character list.</div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">I fully recommend that you open the raw application on TSDR and view the 5 pages of the application. Then tell me the proper pronunciation of this standard character mark! My Bulgarian is
</span><span style="font-size:16pt">more </span><span style="font-size:12pt">than just
<i>a little bit rusty</i>. ;-}</span></div>
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Happy Presidents' Day Holiday,</div>
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Ken Boone</div>
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