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A Smiley Face Balloon Crop From A Gregory Toys Ad from page 20 of The Billboard March 18 1922 by The Gregory Rubber Co, Akron, Ohio

A “SMILEY FACE" --Crop from a Gregory Toy ad [The Gregory Rubber Co Akron, Ohio] from page 20 of The Billboard, March 18, 1922.

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12/31/1919	Smily ( also smiley) in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, Volume 9, Part 1, page 274
3/18/1922	Gregory Toy ad [The Gregory Rubber Co Akron, Ohio] from page 20 of The Billboard
12/31/1922	Toys and Novelties Volume 19(1922) Smiley
5/22/1926	The RURAL NEW-YORKER: Selling, Cherries in Pie Packages-Where the Roadside Stand Helped This May Be a Suggestion for You
07/09/1952	Ad for The Cherry Hut Traverse City Record-Eagle Traverse City, Michigan, Page 23
1/3/1953	AD for “SMILEY” Button
12/31/1953	A smiling face in a bowl of Kix! in a 1953 Episode of "Ding Dong School"
8/8/1955	AD Vintage Mitchell Beer Commercial with a smiley (before 1957)
8/8/1955	Look at this smiley in this Mitchell Premium Beer ad in 1950s Commercial Animation Reel (before 1957)
8/8/1955	Congratulations a friendly salute to Mitchell Brewing Company for winning its Certificate of Merit in the recent Annual Exhibit of the New York Art Directors (before 1957)
9/7/1957	Do-It-Yourself, Carnival by Jane McHenry
8/18/1958	85TH CONGRESS 2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Report No. 2660--Rocket launcher procurement -- THE MILITARY OPERATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE (Smiley launchers)
10/24/1958	Free -Smiley Sun Halloween Masks at the Midland cooperative. No purchase necessary
10/26/1958	Galloping Ghosts! by Bill Ross
10/28/1958	Highlightes of 'School Are Varied
10/25/1962	Spooky, Smiley Cookies
12/31/1962	1962 Television commercial for Ballantine Beer "Little Man--No Beer" look for six smiley faces in a row
3/11/1963	US trademark 764,727 Feb 11, 1964, The Funny Company Ser. No. 164,341, file Mar. 11, 1963 First Use Jan 10, 1963 -- link to Registration Certificate
7/20/1963	New York 'Good Guys' Show Way With Station "Team' Idea[WMCA good guys sweatshirt]
12/31/1963	The Funny Company (1963)
12/31/1964	Metropolitan cook book by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company(full of smiling faces)
2/15/1965	AD The Big Show Pick a Prize KLASTV CBS 8
6/5/1965	THE CIRCLE GROWS(WMCA "Good Guys" sweatshirt)
9/1/1966	Button Helps Firms Gain 'Smile' Image
7/20/1967	AD Free Crazy Day Smile Buttons
7/4/1968	Structural Metals, Ins(I am SNIley AD)
8/14/1968	YOU . . . ARE INVITED TO OUR Grand Opening of the Happy Face of Bill Price Buick Inc
10/24/1968	AD for Large Smiley Pumpkin
10/30/1968	The Ryatts(10-30-1968) joke about a halloween mask
12/31/1968	101 masks; false faces and make-up for all ages, all occasions --8 Smiley The Weeper
1/27/1970	We're Smiling at South Jersey Gas Company AD
4/12/1970	Campaign Working: Smiles and Courtesy Burst Out All Over
4/21/1970	Resort Ripples Button Up Your Smile
5/17/1970	ad for a Snack Hound. Unique dish for nuts, candy, pretzels. 18" overall. Smile-y face, pert tail. Wood. $2.
6/6/1970	Town Of Smiles
9/11/1970	Smile Campaign Given Pretty Boost --
10/30/1970	Gas Workers Become Spreaders Of Cheer By Norton Moekridge
11/27/1970	SMILE Ripples Across Earth(part 1)
11/27/1970	SMILE Ripples Across Earth(part 2)
12/3/1970	"'UNICEF "SMILE'" in The Newton Graphic, December 1970 p 48
1/24/1971	Sweefwater/Jeane Hughes,Chula Vista Star-News, Chula Vista, California, Sun, Jan 24, 1971, Page 16
3/28/1971	Students seek funds for [Orange County Community College] OCCC scholarship
5/23/1971	New in New York LILLIAN ROXON reports
5/25/1971	Resort Launches Campaign As ‘Friendliest Eastern City’
6/11/1971	Smiling faces
6/12/1971	AD for Smiley Shirt
7/9/1971	A Little Smile That's Going Places
7/22/1971	AD for Smiley Pastrys
7/25/1971	"Everybody's Putting on a Happy Face "
8/4/1971	250 ATTEND JAZZ CONCERT AT LONG PARK --- Buddy Rich A Bright Spot on A Rainy Evening
8/06/1971	SMILE spreading: School group's idea seeks to promote kindliness.
8/27/1971	Sonny Side Up: SMILE Means Love
8/29/1971	Who originated that smiling face that is turning up on everything from pins to shirts, and inflatable pillows and even checkbooks?
8/30/1971	Put On A Happy Face, Time, August 30, 1971, Page 36
9/2/1971	Ad for Smiley watches
9/3/1971	LATEST NATIONAL FAD Smiling Faces Now Appear On Everything From Ear Screws To Blue Jeans in Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Lubbock, TX
9/5/1971	Ad for Smiley Waste Bssket
9/8/1971	AD of Gaylords
9/9/1971	Smile" Buttons Aren't Anything New
9/11/1971	Insurance Firms Claim 'Smile Button' Credit.
9/12/1971	Put on a Happy Face
9/12/1971	Origin Debated: Smile Buttons Now National Rage
9/13/1971	The great grin is growing
9/14/1971	Crazy way to bring out the smiles
9/16/1971	AD for Smiley Decorator Throw Pillows
9/17/1971	Smiley Face Finds Favor With Students by Kristine Johnson Staff Writer-- Denton Daily Lass-o, Denton, Texas
9/17/1971	Novelty Rugs- with Smiley Rug
9/21/1971	Their 'Smile Face' --- A Booming Fad
9/22/1971	Linda Peters’ Baby Book Best.
9/22/1971	Smiles Hit City On Pins Faces.
9/22/1971	As for Mister Big Disount World
9/23/1971	Smiley, Swirley Cookies Happy-Day Cookies
9/26/1971	Think Happy
9/26/1971	Put on A Happy Face
10/3/1971	The New Happy Face: Even Politicians Know Its Value
10/7/1971	AD for SMILEY PENDANT WATCH OR SMILEY STRAP WATCH
10/9/1971	An AD for Helzberg Anniversary Sale
10/9/1971	Mainland Graduates Together or Last High School Social.
10/10/1971	Frowns Still Free? -- Smiles Cost Money
10/12/1971	Dorcas Gala Aids Hospital
10/13/1971	Tie world's biggest SMILE.
10/16/1971	When You ☺ the Whole World ☺ With You, The New York Times
10/19/1971	Smile Button Mania Spreads; So Do Smiles.
11/17/1971	Students put on happy face by Jeff House
11/19/1971	AD for Mr Quick's Happiness club
11/20/1971	Increasing PopularityOf Smiley Faces Noted
11/23/1971	Alamance Notebook...By Don Bolden Happy Face (smiley) Local Beginning Burlington Daily Times News, Burlington, North Carolina,
11/25/1971	Put On A Happy "Smile"
12/6/1971	Fad waning, but Smiley's still with us
12/8/1971	THE LITTLE WOMAN "put on your smile button and we'll open the bills!"
12/28/1971	A BOXFUL OF SMILES
12/28/1971	Ad for the Mountain Savings and Loan Association
12/29/1971	AN AD for THE LATEST RAGE! -- "Smile" Mugs
12/31/1971	Richard Scarry's storybook dictionary(SMILEY CROCODILE)
1/17/1972	A letter From The Publisher (Time)
1/27/1972	Ad for SMILEY FACE RUBBER STAMPS
3/20/1972	The smile button: It's Enough to Man Cry
3/20/1972	The smile button: It's Enough to Man Cry(part 2)
4/12/1972	Those Smile Buttons Are Here To Stay
4/21/1972	Grew Up Promoting Education: Simple Slogan, Smile Is Now Four Years Old
7/5/1972	Muggs & Skeeter (Jul 5, 1972)
7/12/1972	Where Did 'Smiley' Come From?,
3/29/1974	Smiley-Face Candles Be Sold By Students.
6/27/1974	4-H activities
2/18/1975	New look for Sidney through supergraphics
7/1/1975	Water tank painting to be finished in July
7/5/1975	Any alternatives?(part 1)
7/5/1975	Any alternatives?(part 2)
7/5/1975	Letters to the editor ‘Smiley face' insult to city nation
7/5/1975	‘Clown picture' waste of money
7/7/1975	‘Smiley face’ not true American symbol:To the editor
7/8/1975	Council opts for ‘Sidney’ on water tank; ‘smiley face’ gone
7/9/1975	People should have say in municipal business
7/11/1975	Leftover paint and yellow-bellied sapsuckers.
7/14/1975	Letter to the editor Defends “smiley face” as happy image
7/18/1975	Inquiring photographer
10/17/1975	Calumet City got Its second smiling face recently, when city officials authorized the painting...
12/2/1975	Smiley face' returns
8/24/1976	"'Smiley face’ strikes back" Sidney Daily News, Sidney, Ohio,
8/24/1976	‘Smiley face’ too outdated commercialized
12/31/1976	The World book dictionary (smiley)
12/31/1976	Webster's third new international dictionary of the English language, unabridged (smiley)
8/6/1977	Sky no limit for water towers
8/6/1977	Sky no limit for water towers(part 2)
4/28/1978	Water Tower In Ind. Wears Smile, Tie
12/31/1979	The Worldbook dictionary - Smiley
2/13/1981	A Bo-K Of Balloons For Your Valentine.
10/15/1981	These Games Will Drive You Berzerk
12/31/1981	Webster's encyclopedia of dictionaries : 12 complete dictionaries in one : nearly 150,000 entries for school, home, office (-ily, -Ighly: drily, Filey, highly, Reilly, Rilely, shyly, slily, smiley, wily, wryly.)
6/16/1983	This teacher is a real clown
12/31/1983	Webster's ninth new collegiate dictionary(smiley)
12/31/1983	(The Funny Company) page 114 Children's television, the first thirty-five years, 1946-1981 : Woolery, George W., 1931-
2/21/1984	Frank and Ernest handwriting analysis
12/31/1984	Webster's ninth new collegiate dictionary(smiley)
1/6/1985	Youths Pin Hopes on Button Company's Growth
12/31/1985	Smile Buttons - American fads by Richard A Johnson, 1985, p 121-124
12/31/1986	Smiley in A Supplement to the Oxford English dictionary
2/9/1987	Smile signs inform drivers
5/13/1987	Guru of cheer
11/24/1988	Acid house: A music rage and outrage
11/24/1988	Acid house: A music rage and outrage(part 2)
2/12/1989	Smiles are back in style '60s grins sunny up buttons, boxer shorts
2/15/1989	Face it! Smiley Face is back and now it's saying more than just 'have a nice day.'
2/15/1989	Face it! Smiley Face is back and now it's saying more than just 'have a nice day.'(part 2)
2/15/1989	The Happy Face Has a Nice New Day
2/21/1989	Smiley faces are back — and much brasher
3/2/1989	Don’t Worry, Be Happy -- Read' theme of Anna’s Right to Read Week.
3/5/1989	Smiley Face: the Rebirth (And Re-death?) Of a Pop Trend
4/9/1989	Tacky' San Franciscan awash in sea of smiley-faces
12/31/1989	NTC's dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions (smiley)
8/14/1990	Smiley face: It's punch-out time
8/14/1990	Suburb's chipper logo grins in face of doom
8/14/1990	Suburb's chipper logo grins in face of doom (part 2)
06/28/1991	Help finding the origin of a familiar face
12/31/1991	The Oxford dictionary of new words : a popular guide to words in the news -- smiley
12/31/1991	Webster's ninth new collegiate dictionary(smiley)
4/23/1993	Who invented the smiley face? ( Straight Dope)
7/28/1993	The smiley face is way off base Reading Eagle
12/31/1993	The Smiley dictionary by Godin, Seth
12/31/1993	Smileys: Over 650, Compiled by David Sanderson, the Noah Webster of Smileys
12/31/1994	The Oxford English minidictionary (smiley)
12/31/1995	Oxford dictionary and thesaurus (smiley)
12/31/1995	The 1996 World Book year book : the annual supplement to the World Book encyclopedia : a review of the events of 1995 (what is net speak?)
07/11/1996	Worcester proclaims itself birthplace of 'smiley face'
12/31/1996	Random House compact unabridged dictionary (smiley)
12/31/1997	Random House Webster's unabridged dictionary (smiley)
3/5/1998	WMCA: Fabulous 57: The Good Guys --A Rewound Radio Educational Web Site
7/7/1998	Unhappy times for smiley artist :The man who created the smiley face symbol finds out someone else holds the trademark
7/7/1998	Artists Dispute Exactly Who Created Smiley Face.
9/28/1998	Two claim creation of smiley face
10/30/1998	Smiley face tops Americans' choice for '70s symbols
3/15/1999	Astronomy Picture of the Day(Happy Face[AKA smiley face] Crater on Mars)
9/25/1999	Kids help design Mt. Laurel slogan :Their ideas are incorporated into art that will appear on Rt. 73 water tower
12/31/1999	Random House Webster's concise college dictionary (smiley)
11/27/2001	Celebrity contestants get really bugged[Dick Clark hosts "American Classics” (8 pm History Channel nightly [Tuesday] through Friday TV-G) a four night roundup... Thursday looks at symbols like the smiley face
11/29/2001	History of Smiley, Harvey Ball and World Smile Day®[Dick Clark hosts "American Classics” the smiley face]
12/31/2000	Random House Webster's unabridged dictionary (smiley)
12/31/2000	Webster's American dictionary : college edition
12/31/2000	Cassell's dictionary of slang (smiley)
12/31/2001	Webster's universal college dictionary
12/31/2001	Webster's concise desk dictionary (smiley)
12/31/2001	Longman dictionary of contemporary English : new words (smiley)
12/31/2001	Computer and Internet dictionary for ages 9 to 99 (smiley)
12/31/2002	The Oxford dictionary of catchphrases (don't worry, be happy)
3/24/2003	FORM 20-F (UNITED BISCUITS FINANCE PLC) see We were involved in multiple lawsuits in France over the “smiley face” trademark we use in the mini BN products we market in France
12/31/2003	Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary(smiley).
12/31/2003	DK illustrated Oxford dictionary (smiley)
4/22/2004	Heavy Metal Madness: Put on a Happy Face!
4/30/2004	FORM F-4(United Biscuits Finance plc) see Legal Proceedings (We were involved in multiple lawsuits in France over the "smiley face" trademark we use in the mini BN products we market in France.....)
8/3/2004	Towns with Smiley Face water towers
12/31/2004	The Cambridge guide to English usage (smiley)
4/6/2005	FORM 20-F (UNITED BISCUITS FINANCE PLC) see We were involved in multiple lawsuits in France over the “smiley face” trademark we use in the mini BN products we market in France
10/24/2005	Smiley Lore :-) BY Scott E. Fahlman
10/26/2005	Original Bboard Thread in which :-) was proposed
12/31/2005	Webster's new explorer dictionary (smiley)
12/31/2005	The Oxford dictionary of American English(smiley)
5/8/2006	Scott's Wal-Mart In Trademark Clash Over Smiley Face
5/8/2006	Wal-Mart seeks smiley face rights
5/14/2006	Wal-Mart not joking with smiley face lawsuit
7/5/2006	Trademark Blog Have A Nice Day
7/5/2006	Wal-Mart fights to keep the smiley face: Retail giant says symbol personifies its price-reducing policy, but London-based firm says it secured rights years ago.
7/6/2006	A smiley face goes a long way
7/6/2006	Who REALLY invented the Smilies (the Smiley face)-- Due to the article in the NY Times, yesterday, this subject has again become current.
7/6/2006	Wal-Mart, French Family Battle With Smiley Faces
10/4/2006	Smiley Face: How an in-house campaign became a global icon
10/30/2006	The last days of Wal-Mart’s smiley face
11/14/2007	A Cookie Controversy Sure to Make You Smile
3/21/2008	Score one for the good guys: Court rejects Wal-Mart’s trademark claim
3/21/2008	Smith v. Wal-Mart Stores
3/24/2008	Wal-Mart's Trademarked Smiley Face Turned Upside Down; Parody Isn't A Trademark Violation
2/20/2009	A design for life: Feelgood corporate logo, acid house icon and txt msg emoticon: one chirpy yellow emblem has kept grinning since the first summer of love. Jon Savage celebrates the life of Smiley
3/4/2009	Wal-Mart fights to keep the smiley face: Retail giant says symbol personifies its price-reducing policy, but London-based firm says it secured rights years ago.
3/25/2009	Wal-Mart Bests Loufrani in TTAB Battle over "Smiling Face" Mark
3/25/2009	SmileyWorld's Franklin Loufrani Suffers Setback in Quest for World Domination of the Smiley Face
9/29/2009	That'll wipe half a smile off your face ...
11/12/2009	Loufrani v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Case No. 09 C 3062, (N.D. Ill. Nov. 12, 2009) [Court Listener.]
11/20/2009	Smiley Company Frowns On Court’s Decision to Deny Motion to Dismiss
11/23/2009	TTAB's Loufrani v. Wal-Mart "SMILEY" Case Lands In Chicago Federal Court
1/6/2010	Plano-based Cookies by Design sued over smiley-face sweet
1/7/2010	Bakery Claims Trademark On Smiley Face Cookies; Sues Competing Cookie Firm -- from the where's-that-cookie-diet? dept
1/13/2010	Smiley ou l'histoire d'une OPA sur un sourire
2/12/2010	Trademark Appeal is Both a New Case & an Appeal
8/20/2010	A Few Good Guys – NEW
12/31/2010	I heart design : significant graphic design selected by designers, illustrators, and critics--The Happy Face
12/31/2010	Oxford dictionary of English (smiley)
7/1/2011	Sony, Astellas, Intel, Wal-Mart: Intellectual Property
12/05/2011	Making the Rounds With Santa Claus Smith: For six years, an elderly tramp toured the U.S., paying those who helped him with checks for sums of up to $900,000
1/19/2012	How old is smiley?
2/3/2012	Smiley's People (Radio 4): The million dollar smile
6/16/2012	Towns with Smiley Face Water Towers
3/13/2013	Who Really Invented the Smiley Face?
4/1/2013	Smiley Face - Worcester Historical Museum \| Worcester Historical Museum
8/31/2013	Don't smirk -- it's no laughing matter: Who wiped the smile off Longport's face? (part 1)
8/31/2013	Don't smirk -- it's no laughing matter: Who wiped the smile off Longport's face? (part 2)
1/13/2014	Worcester celebrates a half-century of Smiley
4/14/2014	The First Emoticon May Have Appeared in ... 1648: The discovery would push back the pre-history of the emoticon by (at least) 200 years.
4/14/2014	smileys, emoticons, typewriter art
4/15/2014	Sorry, That’s Not an Emoticon in a 1648 Poem :(
8/11/2014	Trademark of Common Mathematical Symbol Creates Controversy
8/22/2014	World Smile Day® 1999 Harvey Ball & Smiley's Message - Smiley Stamp unveiling
12/31/2014	Scholastic children's dictionary (smiley)
5/22/2015	Can YOU tell the difference? Cookie war rages between two bakeries, one in Chicago and the other in Pennsylvania, which make VERY similar products
5/28/2015	Throwback Thursday: Eat'n Park Still Suing Over Smiley Face Cookies After All This Time - from the :( dept
7/5/2015	A history of the ‘Smiley face’:Lighthearted emblem dates back to 2500 BC
7/14/2015	Art Chantry Speaks: A Heretic's History of 20th Century Graphic Design--The Acrimonious History of the Happy Face
7/16/2015	The Smiley Face Was Invented for Corporate America
10/02/2015	The Smiley Face Was Invented in Massachusetts
10/19/2015	History of the Smiley Face Symbol
3/7/2016	SmileyWorld's CEO Nicolas Loufrani on plagiarism, the school market and a push for more toys
3/28/2016	La guerre fait rage entre « Wal Mart » et la France
6/1/2016	Why the (Smiley) Face? A Chat with Walmart’s CMO
6/3/2016	Walmart's Smiley is back after 10 years and a lawsuit
12/20/2016	A Brief History of the Smiley Face, Rave Culture's Most Ubiquitous Symbol
12/31/2016	the Merriam Webster Dictionary International Edition (smiley)
02/03/2017	Did a 17th century Slovakian lawyer invent the smiley face and the hashtag? Curators find the 'world's first emoji' in a 382-year-old memo
2/6/2017	World's Oldest Emoji Discovered? Scientists In Slovakia Say They Found 'Smiley Face Emoji'
3/7/2017	The abbot of the Židár monastery used a smiley nearly three hundred years ago
4/23/2017	BATMAN #21 \| A TALE OF TWO COVERS AND LOUFRANI’S TRADEMARK
5/3/2017	Why DC Comics can’t use the most iconic Watchmen image outside of America
5/5/2017	DC Comics’ Legal Problem with the Comedian’s Iconic Badge
5/7/2017	The Man Behind the Smiley Face!
7/19/2017	History’s ‘oldest smile’ found on 4,000-year-old pot in Turkey
7/24/2017	World’s Oldest Smiley Face May Decorate a Hittite Jug:Researchers did not notice the cheery, 3,700-year-old expression until they restored the ceramic
7/24/2017	Smiley’s CEO wants to turn the emoji’s godfather from a licensing biz
8/14/2017	You Really Need to Stop Putting Smiley Faces in Work Emails
5/1/2018	Le père du smiley est français !
7/6/2018	Smiley – A brief history
8/17/2018	It Happens Here: Worcester, Home Of The Smiley Face – Or Is It?
1/3/2019	Nirvana sue designer Marc Jacobs over alleged copyright breach: Representatives of the band are suing the brand over a logo in its Redux Grunge collection
1/22/2019	Smiles Like Teen Spirit: “Smiley Face” Copyright and Trademark Litigation
1/22/2019	Smiles Like Teen Spirit: “Smiley Face” Copyright and Trademark Litigation
1/25/2019	United States: Smiles Like Teen Spirit: "Smiley Face" Copyright And Trademark Litigation
3/11/2019	Academie-francaise Dire, NE PAS Dire -- Smiley
5/28/2019	The Shockingly Large Business Behind the Iconic Smiley Face
06/18/2019	Why Justin Bieber, J Balvin and Miley Cyrus Are Obsessed With Smiley Faces in Fashion: Justin Bieber's brand Drew House, Alexander Wang's fall 2019 show and Miley Cyrus' Happy Hippie Foundation are all among the brands to embrace smiley faces in fashion.
6/28/2019	A Brief History of the Smiley
9/1/2019	From Nirvana and Marc Jacobs to the Smiley Co. and Walmart, the Enduring Fight for the Smiley Face
9/12/2019	The man behind the iconic smiley face logo, which is worth millions, was paid $45 for the original design.
11/12/2019	The Smiley Face by Vivian Le
11/14/2019	Judge Allows Nirvana’s Lawsuit Against Marc Jacobs to Proceed: Band accused fashion line of ripping off happy face logo on shirts for "Bootleg Redux Grunge" collection
11/28/2019	Marc Jacobs countersues Nirvana in T-shirt copyright dispute :Jacobs’ lawyers argue that case against him has ‘numerous deficiencies’, in dispute over smiley face logo that appears in his designs
12/27/2019	Ponderings with Doug- December 27, 2019
3/30/2020	The staying power of the smiley face
5/05/2020	The Surprising Beginnings of This Simple Design \| Behind The HYPE: Smiley Face
5/25/2020	A Brief History Of The Smiley Face - The Journal - MR PORTER
7/18/2020	Here’s The Myth About The Creator of the “Smiley Face” Who Only Got Paid $45(?????)
9/22/2020	Who created Nirvana’s famed smiley-face logo? A legal battle gets a new claimant
9/23/2020	California Graphic Artist Claims He, Not Kurt Cobain, Created Nirvana’s Smiley Face Logo
9/25/2020	Artist files lawsuit after claiming he came up with Nirvana’s ‘smily face’ logo: "Artists deserve proper credit for their work"
10/26/2020	The Sm;)e Book uncovers the storied history of the iconic smiley symbol
11/1/2020	Smiley faces: the symbol of Tallahassee
11/13/2020	Nirvana company files another lawsuit over the band’s smiley face
11/19/2020	Singapore activist faces fine over one-man smiley face sign protest
11/23/2020	It Was Just Him and His Smiley Face. He’s Charged With Illegal Assembly.
11/24/2020	Singapore 'smiley-face' activist in one-man protest charged with unlawful assembly
12/3/2020	The hills look alive, with a giant smiley face
12/30/2020	High school senior cheers up Danville by hanging smiley faces
2/27/2021	It's grin out there: why have lockdown deniers co-opted the smiley face?:The blissed-out symbol of acid house has been given a new meaning in 2021. Should ravers be up in arms?
4/20/2021	Smiley face pin from University Federal Savings, 1967
5/2/2021	Smiley face on Norwich house still bringing joy after 50 years
5/24/2021	What is a Smiley (webopedia.)
8/1/2021	The Birth, Spread, and Evolution of the Smiley Emoticon
10/1/2021	The Happiest Face On Earth: A Brief History Of The Smiley
10/28/2021	A smiley face emerges from Oregon hillside every fall
12/27/2021	Let's make the 'smiley face' the international symbol of joy in 2022 \| For What It's Worth
1/4/2022	French company and Wal-Mart square off over the smiley face: In the corporate battle over who gets to use the smiley face, it's not just who smiled first that counts, but also where they smiled and just how that smile was used
1/12/2022	Cambridge dictionary(online) smiley
3/4/2022	Nordstrom And Luxury Brands Help The Smiley Face Celebrate Its 50th Birthday
3/10/2022	The smiley turns 50—the unlikely origin and rise of a copyright worth millions
3/15/2022	The Smiley Company’s Evolution From Licensor to a €350m Lifestyle Brand
3/29/2022	How The Smiley Company has built a smiley face retail empire
4/17/2022	A 1963 Pfeiffer Premium Beer can ( Happy face) IMHO this looks like the classic smiley face
5/11/2022	Here's What The Face Emojis Actually Mean
5/18/2022	The French Smiley Emperors: The smiley was born in the United States, but a business-savvy Frenchman claimed the rights to it 50 years ago. Franklin Loufrani and his son Nicolas are now at the head of an international merchandising empire.
6/26/2022	Do you see a smile in the center of this daisy? It brightened this Canton family's day.
7/8/2022	The $500m smiley face business
7/22/2022	Creator of Worcester Monopoly board game suing artist over use of his smiley face mural
7/29/2022	WHERE ARE WEST MICHIGAN’S LARGEST SMILEY FACES?
8/9/2022	The photo shows a jug from 3700 years ago, which shows a pictogram with a smiling human face. It was discovered in 2017 by a team of Turkish-Italian
8/11/2022	Naegelin’s Bakery Bringing Happy Faces to the Hill Country Since 1868
8/15/2022	The True Story of The Smiley Face T-shirt
8/16/2022	Really? You Can NOT Use this Smiley Face Freely?
9/9/2022	Classic Chronicle: How the 'smiley face' was created
9/20/2022	We’ve been using smiley faces online for 40 years now. How did that become a thing?
9/25/2022	Fifty years and $500m: the happy business of the smiley symbol
10/7/2022	Here's Why JJ Draws The Smiley Face
11/21/2022	Smiley Program - The history of Harvey Ball's smiley.
11/24/2022	This Is the Strange (But True!) Origin of the Smiley Face
12/7/2022	The Smiley in Vietnam
3/13/2023	A SAD New Category of Abusive Intellectual Property Litigation-Columbia Law Review Forum (2023 Forthcoming)-Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4381824
6/2/2023	How A Missed Trademark Filing Resulted In The $500 Million Smiley Face For One Family
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This webpage was created to help educate the public about the history of the word "smiley" and the smiley symbol. I hope this webpage will help in your own research. If you are one of the defendants in one of the "The Smiley Company SPRL v. The Individuals, Partnerships, and Unincorporated Associations identified on Schedule 'A'" lawsuits. Remember, The Smiley Company SPRL attorney is NOT your attorney; while being polite, be very careful what you tell them, do not tell them anything more than you have to tell them, comply with any court orders and file a response to avoid a default judgment. Seek out an attorney to discover more options; many attorneys offer a free initial consultation. The webmaster of Pre-1926 Smiley is NOT an attorney and can NOT offer legal advice.

For more information on the Schedule A Defendant ("SAD Scheme") see "A Sad Scheme of Abusive Intellectual Property Litigation" by Eric Goldman, Columbia Law Review, Vol. 123, No. 7, Pages 183–207, November 20, 2023.

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