A court would certainly accept “Unicode®” with the circle on the baseline, just like it could accept a contract with a minor misspelling as valid. This does not change the fact that the superscripting has a semantic content.
Peter Constable <[email protected]>: > > https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1111: > > a registrant of a mark registered in the Patent and Trademark Office, may > give notice that his mark is registered by displaying with the mark the words > “Registered in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office” or “Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. > Off.” or the letter R enclosed within a circle, thus ®; > > > In point of fact, writing “Unicode®”, however the symbol appears, is legally > equivalent in the US to "Unicode Registered in U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off." > > > > P. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Constable <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2024 1:52 AM > To: Ivan Panchenko <[email protected]>; [email protected] > Subject: RE: Position of the registered sign > > The US Code Title 17, section 401 specifies simply > > the symbol © (the letter C in a circle), or the word “Copyright”, or > the abbreviation “Copr.”; > > https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap4.html > > I don't think any US court is likely to support a claim that superscripting > of the symbol is semantically significant. > > > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: Unicode <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ivan Panchenko > via Unicode > Sent: Monday, September 16, 2024 12:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Position of the registered sign > > To make it clear: There is a semantic difference because superscripting makes > it an annotation. Simply writing “Unicode®” with the circle on the baseline > seems wrong to me because it is like writing “UnicodeReg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. > Off.”. > > Another discrepancy that I noticed concerns the hourglass emojis. > Originally, there was just one (⌛, U+231B). The reference glyph shows all of > the sand below, in some designs, however, the sand is still flowing. Now that > we have U+23F3 (⏳, hourglass with flowing sand), it would make sense that > U+231B is shown without flowing sand; in some designs, however, this is not > the case (perhaps to remain consistent with how it was before) and U+23F3 has > a greater proportion of the sand at the top. >
