[E-trademarks] Trademark Search: WD:( *€* ) Fix!?!?!

[Ken Boone]

Yesterday, the WD:( *€* ) AND LD:true search retrieved only 1 trademark, namely 98057893 (€MPRESS).  Additionally, the display of occurrences of € in word mark entries was flawed (except for the word mark entry €MPRESS for 98057893).

Today, the WD:( *€* ) AND LD:true search retrieves 40 trademarks.  Hopefully, that search result is accurate.  (By my checks, it is NOT complete - that there is at least on live trademark with € in the word mark that is NOT retrieved by that search.  Too bad the Decimal Mark index of TESS was not included on Trademark Search to provide the alternative method of searching for occurrences of a specific character by its decimal value for word mark entries.)

Curiously, the search WD:*€* AND UD:20240628 retrieves 39 trademarks, where 98057893 (€MPRESS) is the only word mark containing the € character that was retrieved by my initial search but was not updated on Trademark Search this morning.

Several small headaches remain.  For a long time (and possibly continuing today), TEAS converted occurrences of € in word mark entries to EURO.  I still see several occurrences of € in drawings for which the word mark entries have the string EURO for the € standard character.  Additionally, the description of design code 241705 on TSDR is Pound sterling symbol (£); Yen (¥) and Euro (€).  The search DD:euro AND LD:true  retrieves 119 trademarks, but the search DD:(€) AND LD:true retrieves 4,234,724 hits, clearly an error.  Same for the search DD:¥ AND LD:true.  Sometimes, occurrences of € in drawings do not include € in the word mark, such as

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Wordmark
CURRENCY $ CAPITAL CURRENCY CULTURE

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Wordmark
CC

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Wordmark
EMMI

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Wordmark
WEIRD

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Wordmark
P P F

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Wordmark
BLESSED


Happ¥ Trad€marking,
Ken Boone

PS - I stll see over 300 questionable word marks - word mark entries for which at least one standard character has a ? (question mark) instead of the expected standard character.
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