There is an Emoji Corporation [1], which as far as I can tell exists to try and trick people into thinking they've got to pay them to use emojis. Looks like they got some Danegeld out of Sony Pictures for the Emoji movie.
[1] https://www.emoji.com/
> We are the exclusive rights owner of the registered emoji® trademark
”We own the word and they used it!”
Playground logic from adults. Of course there are legitimate use-cases for a trademark but this is pretty plainly not one of those.
There is an Emoji Corporation [1], which as far as I can tell exists to try and trick people into thinking they've got to pay them to use emojis. Looks like they got some Danegeld out of Sony Pictures for the Emoji movie.
[1] https://www.emoji.com/