[E-trademarks] TEAS Voluntary Amendment Doesn't Like Unicode Characters - See 99414215 - ?OCCETTA ????? RE INVENTED

[Ken Boone]

Trademark Experts,

Caution: It appears that the TEAS Voluntary Amendment form does not understand Unicode characters outside the ASCII character set, substituting question marks (?) for such Unicode characters.

Consider 99414215, filed on 9/26 with В CCETTA ВОССЕ RE INVENTED appearing as the wordmark.

[Image for 99414215]

Today, ?OCCETTA ????? RE INVENTED is presented as the wordmark.  Why?  The Prosecution History shows that on Oct. 05, 2025, a TEAS VOLUNTARY AMENDMENT was received, amending the drawing (the original drawing did not include colors).  The new literal element ? CCETTA ????? RE INVENTED was provided. (I do not see any evidence that Pre-Exam has performed any edits of this new application yet {i.e, the prosecution history does not include the NEW APPLICATION OFFICE SUPPLIED DATA ENTERED entry}.)

Using Carl's favorite character dumper (https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatisit.html), the original wordmark В CCETTA ВОССЕ RE INVENTED has multiple Unicode characters.

U+0412 : CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER VE
U+0020 : SPACE [SP]
U+0043 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C
U+0043 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C
U+0045 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E
U+0054 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T
U+0054 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T
U+0041 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
U+0020 : SPACE [SP]
U+0412 : CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER VE
U+041E : CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER O
U+0421 : CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ES
U+0421 : CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ES
U+0415 : CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IE
U+0020 : SPACE [SP]
U+0052 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R
U+0045 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E
U+0020 : SPACE [SP]
U+0049 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I
U+004E : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N
U+0056 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V
U+0045 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E
U+004E : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N
U+0054 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T
U+0045 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E
U+0044 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D

I'm concluding that the newly provided literal element ? CCETTA ????? RE INVENTED closely matched the original wordmark ?OCCETTA ????? RE INVENTED, but that the TEAS VOLUNTARY AMENDMENT did not recognize the Unicode characters outside the ASCII character set.

BTW, everyone has noticed that the Beta viewer for Trademark Search still provides incomplete information, right?  The Announcements page still shows the notice Update: On September 24, we temporarily disabled some of these new beta features to test them further. We'll remove this message once they are restored.

Happy Trademark Amending,
Ken Boone
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