Please fix the trademark policy in regards to code

[William_J_G Overington]

I am not a lawyer, but I seem to remember something in United Kingdom 
Patent Law that, whilst not the same issue as here, may have a sort of 
resonant parallel.

There is something about there being no legal force in declaring upon an 
object or in literature describing the object that the object is 
patented unless the registration number of the patent is also stated.

So, is it reasonable for Unicode, Inc. to request or require on a web 
page for people to repeat a statement that Unicode is a registered 
trademark when Unicode, Inc. does not provide any checkable evidence 
upon that web page that that is the case?

If a person does state that message and is then challenged to prove that 
claim how does the person do that?

I remember a magazine editor saying that the magazine, when reporting 
the content of a press release from a business about a new product, and 
what it could do, that the magazine would always list statements in the 
press release as "claims",

People may well have no reason to doubt the truth of the claims that 
Unicode Inc. makes about trade mark registration, but that is not the 
same as people being requested or required to repeat those claims as if 
fact without checkable evidence before them.

William Overington

Tuesday 20 October 2020


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