[E-trademarks] Unicode Growing Pains, Continued: 79397506 Versus 98758465

[Ken Boone]

79397506
[Image for 79397506, select for more details]

98758465
[Image for 98758465, select for more details]

View the raw application for 79397506 and you'll see the wordmark provided was αAI.

View the raw application for 98758465 and you'll see the wordmark provided was DH5alpha.

The current word marks are ΑAI and DH5Ɑ.  Confusing, right?

For 79397506, I'm thinking that USPTO processing converted αAI to upper case characters, so the lower-case Greek character α became the upper-case Greek character Α with USPTO's standard lower-case to upper-case conversion of wordmark entries.  While Α sure looks like an ordinary upper-case A, if you copy/paste that character to Trademark Search and add the * wildcard operator before and after the letter for the search WD:*Α* AND LD:true, you'll see (decreasing SN order & edited slightly to reduce graphic size)

[cid:1c723af8-2c17-406d-ad20-cd01c231f954]

For 98758465, I'm guessing some enterprising USPTO employee first substituted α for alpha in the wordmark, saw the lower-case to upper-case conversion automatically performed for that updated wordmark, then looked searched for alternative upper-case Unicode characters resembling the α, finding Ɑ.  Repeating that copy/paste operation to Trademark Search, the search WD:*Ɑ* AND LD:true retrieves

[cid:29229b0c-5973-4631-a264-437d3bb03b30]

Curiously, both applications are currently stylized text drawings (mark drawing code 5), so neither has the design search code 28.01.05 - Alpha (Greek letter); Cyrillic characters (Russian); Greek characters; Inscriptions in Greek and Cyrillic characters; Omega (Greek letter); Russian characters (Cyrillic).

Happy Trademarking,
Ken Boone
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