[E-trademarks] Standard Character € Watch: This Is W€Î®D™

[Ken Boone]

Admittedly, it has been a while since I've looked for occurrences of the € (the Euro character, the standard character with decimal value 128), in part because the two searches

WD:( *€* ) AND LD:true

( WD:/.*\€.*/  ) AND LD:true

both only retrieve a single trademark record, namely 98057893 with €MPRESS with the word mark entry.  Both TM Search and TSDR show €MPRESS as the word mark entry, though TSDR indicates that No Image exists for this case (which is a little weird).

Today, I retrieved from my archives a list of trademarks with the € character in the word mark.  Several of those trademarks are now dead, but reviewing the live trademarks, things got W€Î®D™ (88618843, though WEIRD is the current word mark entry).

For example, TM Search shows ANYTHING THAT PRODUCES (C)€URRENCY as the word mark entry for 88904222 (a standard character mark), but toggle to TSDR and ANYTHING THAT PRODUCES (C)€URRENCY is the word mark entry, where the expected occurrence of the € instead has a ⮗ (box symbol) displayed.  Huh? (I hope that symbol doesn't get corrupted via email.)

Then there's 90458807 with BAN€K$ as the word mark on TM Search, but toggle to TSDR and see BAN€K$ as the word mark (that ⮗ box phenomenon again), plus that box symbol appears in the design code description 24.17.05 - Pound sterling symbol (£); Yen (¥) and Euro (€).

Exporting my TM Search records, only 98057893 with €MPRESS with the word mark entry included the € character in the word mark.  The ⮗ box phenomenon did not occur.  No character appeared in the exported Excel file where the ⮗ box appeared.

I've seen this unexpected behavior with both Edge and Chrome as my browser.



Happ¥ Trad€ma®king,
Ken Boone
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