Position of the registered sign

[Peter Constable]

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 <pgcon6 at msn.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2024 1:52 AM
To: Ivan Panchenko <ivanpan3 at gmail.com>; unicode at corp.unicode.org
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 <unicode-bounces at corp.unicode.org> On Behalf Of Ivan Panchenko via Unicode
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2024 12:15 PM
To: unicode at corp.unicode.org
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.