• "smiling face." Loufrani was not the first documented person to use the term "smiley." By the 1990s, Franklin and his son Nicolas Loufrani held trademarks...
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    set, from 2000 onwards. The digital smiley movement was headed up by Nicolas Loufrani, the CEO of The Smiley Company. In 2001, The Smiley Company developed...
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    Company. In 1996 Loufrani's son Nicolas Loufrani took over the family business and built it into a multinational corporation. Nicolas Loufrani was outwardly...
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  • many of these would not be available as Unicode emoji until 2014. Nicolas Loufrani applied to the US Copyright Office in 1999 to register the 471 smileys...
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    a plugin created by Nicolas Loufrani in the late 90s to allow people to send emoticons online. Unlike Kurita's designs, Loufrani focused solely on smiley...
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    and the acronym LOL. In 1996, The Smiley Company was established by Nicolas Loufrani and his father Franklin as a way of commercializing the smiley trademark...
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  • Gloria Katz, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2018) 1942 – Franklin Loufrani, French President of the Smiley Company 1943 – Orso Maria Guerrini, Italian...
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