<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> </head> <body><div class="auto-created-dir-div" dir="ltr" style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><style>p{margin:0}</style><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>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?</p><p><br></p><p>If a person does state that message and is then challenged to prove that claim how does the person do that?</p><p><br></p><p>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",</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>William Overington</p><p><br></p><p>Tuesday 20 October 2020</p><p><br></p><p><br></p></div></body></html>