We use them all the time to make our online conversations more
expressive. Emojis have become part of our daily lives, but who
owns them? The question arises whenever a company wants to use them
as a trademark or include them in a mark.
Emojis are these little icons that we often use in our written
online communications to replace a word, as punctuation or to
convey an emotion or an idea.
Most of them are very common and are recognized on every
platform. However, a platform may depict an emoji in a different
way. Apple, for example, uses a neon green water pistol instead of
a realistic representation of a gun.
Do Emojis Benefits from Intellectual Property Protection?
First of all, because an emoji is an image, it is likely to be
protected by copyright. A combination of elements may also be
protected by copyright. A set of emojis suggesting a particular
idea could potentially be protected if their selection and
arrangement is original enough. A specific emoji
