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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/24/2025 11:15 AM, Ken Boone via
E-trademarks wrote:<br>
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<div class="elementToProof">PS - Do you notice anything unusual
about 99181596, the trademark <u>OMMISIMQIST\u200b</u> in standard
characters. The search WD:( *\u200b* ) with that</div>
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<u><img alt="Image for 99181596, select for more details"
id="image_0" moz-do-not-send="true"></u></div>
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<span>It's another case of counting the letters in the
wordmark. It looks like there are only 11 characters in the
wordmark, but there are actually 12. The final letter is the
Unicode character with decimal value 8203, the </span><span><i>zero-width
space (rendered: \u200b ; HTML entity: &ZeroWidthSpace; or
&#8203; ), abbreviated ZWSP, is a non-printing character
used in computerized typesetting to indicate where the word
boundaries are, without actually displaying a visible space
in the rendered text</i></span><span>. The search
</span><span><b>WD:( *\u200b* ) </b>
</span><span>with that </span><span><i>zero-width space</i></span><span> character
between the two * wildcard operators retrieves only this
OMMISIMQIST\u200b trademark. The similar search
</span><span><b>CM:( *\u200b* )</b></span><span> retrieves 6 live
trademarks, including 2 registrations. Go figure.</span></div>
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<p>Hello fellow listserv members.</p>
<p>It will be recalled that on May 24, Ken found this application
number 99181596 which is supposedly a standard-character mark,
except that from the day it was filed it contained Unicode 8203 at
the end. This is a zero-width space or ZWSP character.</p>
<p>I plugged it into my IP Badger.</p>
<p>I figured that one or another of the many Trademark Office
lurkers would have quietly flagged the case to correct this
Trademark Office mistake.</p>
<p>On September 25, the case reached the desk of the Examining
Attorney. The EA approved it for publication the next day.</p>
<p>On October 10, this happened:</p>
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<p>692 - WITHDRAWN BEFORE PUBLICATION</p>
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<p>10/10/2025 ON HOLD - ELECTRONIC RECORD REVIEW REQUI\u2026</p>
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<p>I assumed this must surely mean that somebody at the Trademark
Office was paying attention to the failure on the part of the
Trademark Office to have noticed until now the non-standard
character contained in this supposedly standard-character mark.</p>
<p>But now on October 12, whoever the nameless person was who pulled
the case before publication has quietly let go of it. Now it is
back in the publication workflow. The Trademark Office has
selected October 28 as the day it plans to publish this
application. And (I am not making this up) the ZWSP is still in
the mark.</p>
<p>Carl</p>
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