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Aside from non-Latin characters in wordmarks that visually strongly resemble Latin characters in the drawing, here's another standard character mark anomaly: the NBSP character.</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The search </span><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><b>WD:* * AND LD:true AND MD:standard</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> retrieves 45 live standard character marks. You should be scratching your head
with that search result, but here's why: the blank space for the </span><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><b>WD:* *</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> part is the ASCII character with decimal value 160, a non-breaking space (NBSP) which Google
AI describes as follows.</span></div>
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The character with the decimal value 160 is a non-breaking space (NBSP).</div>
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While standard ASCII only defines characters for decimal values 0-127, extended ASCII character sets, such as ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1), include characters up to 255. In these extended sets, 160 consistently represents the non-breaking space.</div>
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The non-breaking space looks identical to a regular space (decimal 32) but prevents an automatic line break from occurring at its position, which is useful in typography and web design to keep certain words or numbers together.</div>
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Decades ago, I noted that this non-breaking space character should be included in the USPTO's standard character set; else, any trademark that included this non-breaking space character was disqualified from being a standard character mark. Here's the relevant
text from the TMEP.</div>
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807.03(b) List of Standard Characters</div>
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The USPTO has created a standard character set that lists letters, numerals, punctuation marks, and diacritical marks that may be used in a standard character drawing. The standard character set is available on the USPTO website at https://www.uspto.gov/trademark/standard-character-set.
If the applicant has claimed standard character format and the drawing includes elements that are not in the set, then the examining attorney must treat the drawing as a special form drawing, ensure that the mark drawing code is changed, and require the applicant
to delete the standard character claim. See TMEP §807.18 concerning mark drawing codes.</div>
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In a §66(a) application, if the drawing includes elements that are not in the standard character set, the examining attorney must require deletion of the standard character claim even though the international registration indicates that the mark is in standard
characters. See Guide to International Registration, B.II.07.44.</div>
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Alas, the USPTO has yet to add the non-breaking space character with decimal value 160 to the USPTO's standard character list. Apparently, legal opinions vary on whether the NBSP character is a valid standard character.
<i>If you can't see it in the drawing, ...</i></div>
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Following are some live/dead standard character marks with the non-breaking blank space character in the wordmark. I particularly liked 99068513 SPIRITED PROPERITY in that the drawing split the word PROPERITY over two lines rather than break at the non-breaking
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99260236 SAINT SOVÉR</div>
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99093382 INDEPENDENT COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION (ICAA)<img style="width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 989px; max-height: 150px; box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px;" alt="Image for 99093382" src="https://tmcms-docs.uspto.gov/cases/99093382/mark/large.png"></div>
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99068513 SPIRITED PROPERITY<img style="width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 989px; max-height: 150px; box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px;" id="image_1" alt="Image for 99068513" src="https://tmcms-docs.uspto.gov/cases/99068513/mark/large.png"></div>
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98902225 PROFESSIONAL RECRUITING | RETAINED SEARCH | PROJECT & INTERIM SERVICES ACCOUNTING · FINANCE · TAX · AUDIT<img style="width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 989px; max-height: 150px; box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px;" alt="Image for 98902225" src="https://tmcms-docs.uspto.gov/cases/98902225/mark/large.png"></div>
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98869965 WISELY - WOMEN IN STEM & ENGINEERING LEADING YOUTH<img style="width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 989px; max-height: 150px; box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px;" alt="Image for 98869965" src="https://tmcms-docs.uspto.gov/cases/98869965/mark/large.png"></div>
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98844599 V I Z U N W E A R<img style="width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 989px; max-height: 150px; box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px;" alt="Image for 98844599" src="https://tmcms-docs.uspto.gov/cases/98844599/mark/large.png"></div>
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98610557 TELE\u014c COLLECTION<img style="width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 989px; max-height: 150px; box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px;" alt="Image for 98610557" src="https://tmcms-docs.uspto.gov/cases/98610557/mark/large.png"></div>
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98399318 BDBF BEST "DAM" BLUES FEST<img style="width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 989px; max-height: 150px; box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px;" alt="Image for 98399318" src="https://tmcms-docs.uspto.gov/cases/98399318/mark/large.png"></div>
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98164791 WEDDING READY FITNESS + WELLNESS<img style="width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 989px; max-height: 150px; box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px;" alt="Image for 98164791" src="https://tmcms-docs.uspto.gov/cases/98164791/mark/large.png"></div>
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90218759 DIG IT · LOAD IT · LIFT IT · RENT IT<img style="width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 989px; max-height: 150px; box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px;" alt="Image for 90218759" src="https://tmcms-docs.uspto.gov/cases/90218759/mark/large.png"></div>
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88191188 JACOBSON HAT COMPANY<img style="width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 989px; max-height: 150px; box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px;" alt="Image for 88191188" src="https://tmcms-docs.uspto.gov/cases/88191188/mark/large.png"></div>
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87750769 SPLASH BROTHERS CUSTOMIZED<img style="width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 989px; max-height: 150px; box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px;" alt="Image for 87750769" src="https://tmcms-docs.uspto.gov/cases/87750769/mark/large.png"></div>
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79427694 LOBSTER BRAND HI\u1ec7U TôM HùM<img style="width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 989px; max-height: 150px; box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px;" id="image_2" alt="Image for 79427694" src="https://tmcms-docs.uspto.gov/cases/79427694/mark/large.png"></div>
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78328986 ALL SPARKLE NO FIZZ<img style="width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 989px; max-height: 150px; box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px;" alt="Image for 78328986" src="https://tmcms-docs.uspto.gov/cases/78328986/mark/large.png"></div>
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78328499 JC - BEAT THE THE TO PUNCH!<img style="width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 989px; max-height: 150px; box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px;" alt="Image for 78328499" src="https://tmcms-docs.uspto.gov/cases/78328499/mark/large.png"></div>
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76117819 THE INNER BODY WORKOUT<img style="width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 989px; max-height: 150px; box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px;" id="image_0" alt="Image for 76117819" src="https://tmcms-docs.uspto.gov/cases/76117819/mark/large.png"></div>
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If you haven't guessed, I used this anomaly to play with the concept of Trademark Search displaying just the drawings, the no text concept I tried to present to this discussion group last week. I'd say including the wordmarks is distracting - that just the
serial numbers above the drawings would display better, and the drawings with design elements are more easily identified (assuming someone used Trademark Search to review the standard character marks in the publication queue). </div>
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Another anomaly is revealed by the search <span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">
<b>WD:*\u039c* AND LD:true AND ST:true</b></span> which currently retrieves 12 pending standard character mark, namely</div>
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THE \u039cINVASIVE SURGICAL COMPANY</div>
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99370606</div>
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2025-09-02</div>
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\u039cTUMA</div>
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99370614</div>
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2025-09-02</div>
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\u039cBMG</div>
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98761636</div>
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2024-09-20</div>
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\u039c - MATERIAL MACHINE</div>
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99331582</div>
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2025-08-11</div>
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BIG IDEAS AT \u039cSCALE</div>
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99255855</div>
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2025-06-27</div>
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\u039cPERKER</div>
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99370541</div>
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2025-09-02</div>
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\u039cIBIR</div>
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99370553</div>
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2025-09-02</div>
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\u039cBNSR</div>
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99321429</div>
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2025-08-05</div>
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\u039cMUX</div>
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99171987</div>
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2025-05-06</div>
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THE \u039cINVASIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURE COMPANY</div>
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where the drawings show the standard character µ (part of the extended ASCII character set) but the wordmark has the Greek unicode character \u039c (the Greek Capital Letter Mu (U+039C)). But once the standard character mark hits the publication queue and I complain,
the USPTO usually <i>corrects </i>the wordmark by substituting the standard character µ for the Greek unicode character \u039c. But why should I have to complain? </div>
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Happy Trademarking,</div>
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Ken Boone</div>
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