[EXTERNAL] Re: Position of the registered sign

[Tom Moore]

I suppose some traditions of superscripting these symbols could originate not from typographic plain text usages, but from their addition to packaging and advertisement materials, as marks appended to larger, bolder, stylized, and/or colored brand names.  

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From: Unicode <unicode-bounces at corp.unicode.org> On Behalf Of Steffen Nurpmeso via Unicode
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To: Marius Spix via Unicode <unicode at corp.unicode.org>
Cc: duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Position of the registered sign

Marius Spix via Unicode wrote in
 <trinity-b2c1235a-6f49-4282-8550-3f2b152dcfb0-1726832791428 at 3c-app-webde\
 -bap03>:
 |Thank you for this information. German trademark law is very strict. \

As far as *i* know, it was all Europeanized in 1995.  Other than that there seems to be a many-hundred-year history on this law, with major changes in the 19th century.  Wz thus seems to refer to the pre-1995 era, whereas we (here) all remember and still see
(huh?!?) the non-abbreviated "Eingetragenes Warenzeichen"
(registered trademark).

--steffen
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