Object Icon co-expressions: name, succeed, fail and fate

Robert Parlett has released Object Icon 2.4 as an O-O UNICODE implementation of the Icon programming language.

But another Objecticon is also appearing as the trademark of an unrelated dot com.

This is sad, given the much earlier choice of Unicon for extended-Icon.

Was ICON a sorrier name choice than SNOBOL ?

IconOO appears to be available: "Icon-Oh-Oh" ?

IconCR (as in Icon co-routines) also appears to be a trademark (Eye-Conquer.)

What remains is the sobering reality that UNICODE came to so many advanced languages so late.  How and why and where did "innovation" fail to occur in this area?

Then there is Curl from www.curl.com which was UNICODE from the start and never got a foothold.  And failed to protect its MIT trademark ...

Is it possible for "Object Icon" to be protected?

Xunit Framework for ObjectIcon?

I added a note at code.google.com/p/ObjectIcon as I see this lack to be a real issue.

To me it is as much an issue as if it were not possible to place comments in source files.