Editing At sign (section)

=== Trademark ===
In 2012, "@" was registered as a [[trademark]] with the German Patent and Trade Mark Office.<ref>German Patent and Trademark Office, registration number [https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/register/3020120383386/DE?lang=en 302012038338] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102053509/http://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/register/3020120383386/DE?lang=en |date=2012-11-02 }}.</ref> A cancellation request was filed in 2013, and the cancellation was ultimately confirmed by the German Federal Patent Court in 2017.<ref>Bundespatentgericht, decision of 22 February 2017, no. 26 W (pat) 44/14 ([http://juris.bundespatentgericht.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bpatg&Art=en&Datum=Aktuell&Sort=12288&nr=29334&pos=1&anz=162&Blank=1.pdf online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322140609/http://juris.bundespatentgericht.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bpatg&Art=en&Datum=Aktuell&Sort=12288&nr=29334&pos=1&anz=162&Blank=1.pdf |date=2019-03-22 }}).</ref>