Recently, many American law firms have carried out some well-known brand rights protection, including not only several established law firms GBC and Keith, but also a law firm with frequent HSP actions. Recently, this HSP law firm has won the agency of the famous emoticon package Emoji. As we all know, this emoticon package is very popular and frequently used in our lives, and many of its products are also related to it. It is conceivable that Emoji is represented by the law firm, and soon a large number of businesses will be accused of infringement.
Emoji emoticons first appeared in Japan, and were used in radio communication to express the real-time emotions of the communicators with words and emoticons. In China, this kind of expression pack is usually called “Little Yellow Face” because of its yellow facial expressions, and some directly call it Emoji’s. According to Shigetaka Kurita, the founder of this emoticon pack, he was inspired by reading cartoons and remembering Japanese characters when he was a child, and this emoticon pack perfectly blended the elements. Emoji emoticons have a global usage rate of about 90%, and an average of about 6 billion emoticons are transmitted every day. Not to exaggerate, Emoji emoticons have been widely used all over the world and become one of the most exported goods in Japan. What’s more, treat this expression pack as a work of art. As early as 2016, emoji emoticons have been permanently collected by museums, including nearly 176 collections in new york Museum of Modern Art, all of which are emoji’s first works in 1999. So far, Emoji has registered many categories, including 05, 08, 10, 11, 12, 28, 31, 36, 41 and 43:
In addition, EMOJI COMPANY GMBH has registered other Emoji trademarks, so anything containing Emoji expressions and related terms cannot be directly used as a commercial product.
Because Emoji’s products are mainly pictures, it is easy to be applied to commodities. According to past experience, it is very likely that this case will start with copyright. Therefore, everything sold to the United States without permission, as long as it is related to emoji products, will constitute infringement, and its copyright is not classified. Emoji emoticons are very popular at this stage and can be seen everywhere in our lives. At the same time, many sellers have seized the selling point and madly produced peripheral products related to emoji, and small commodities printed with related patterns can also be seen everywhere on major platforms. Although the accounts of sellers on some platforms have been frozen, such as Dunhuang. com, there are still many related products for sale on other platforms. Therefore, as long as HSP law firms start to defend their rights, quite a few businesses will be sued for infringement and get into trouble. Generally speaking, the case is just in the stage of freezing the accounts involved, and HSP Law Firm will announce the list of defendants in succession in the follow-up time. Therefore, here is a suggestion for sellers, so be sure to find out whether their products are related to Emoji expressions (pattern infringement, text infringement). If there are related products, be sure to take them off the shelves and take precautions.
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