Trademark Registrations for Emojis
12 06 2017[This is another excerpt from my Emojis and the Law paper.]
The Trademark Office has registered emoji trademarks. On January 20, 2017, I conducted a search in the TESS database for “emoji” and identified 385 records. At that time, most of those are pending trademark applications; I counted only 62 actual registrations. Of those, most are word marks with no design elements; and the few with design elements usually incorporated an emoji within the design rather than constituting an actual emoji itself. Still, I found a couple of trademark registrations of emojis, including:
Registration No. 5048843 (Sept. 27, 2016) for a key emoji:
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