Owner review 24 — rulings (2026-10-14)

Status: Active · Date: 2026-10-14 · Answers: "I approve the changes in the scoring sheet, and I like the new match grammar. Yes, the mark is great. And how about 다붓 instead of 다붓이?" Companion: review-23 rulings.

Approved

• The scoring sheet: the honor-system entry, the 경기 중단 process, the tiebreak cell and the host review sheet (library: ScoreEntry).
• The match grammar: one layout with faces on every match surface (library: Team lines, Match row states).
• The mark: Fitted close.

The component library marks those sections approved.

다붓 instead of 다붓이: keep 다붓이

Checked on 2026-10-14. 다붓 is taken:

• An app named exactly "다붓" is live on both stores: on the App Store in Korea and the US (Social Networking, from seller KIL SANG JUNG), and on Google Play as "다붓 (Dabut) - 번호 없이 연락하는 메신저", a messenger. App Store Connect names must be unique, so the bare "다붓" is not available. A longer title (for example "다붓: 테니스 클럽 운영") would be allowed, but an app in our own category (we have chat) would still invite confusion. Corrected after the first draft, which said the store rule alone blocked it.
• The Latin form breaks. 다붓 romanises as "Dabut" (said [다붇]), which English readers say as "da-butt". dabut.com is taken. Keeping DABUSI beside a Korean 다붓 would make the two scripts disagree.
• It is a stem, not a word. 다붓 is the root of 다붓하다 and 다붓이. On its own, Koreans hear a clipped half-word, like the 당차 and 알차 forms flagged in review 16.
• The register. A 다붓 mark is pending in class 18 (pet leashes). The company 다붓컴퍼니 also exists (review 21). Both sit closer to 다붓 than to 다붓이.

Ruling: the name stays 다붓이 / DABUSI. People will shorten it to "다붓" in conversation. That is fine as a nickname, but not as the registered name.

바투: blocked

The owner asked: "How about 바투? Seems like we can maybe use it?" 바투 (표준국어대사전: "두 대상이나 물체의 사이가 썩 가깝게") means close together, like 다붓이, in two open syllables. Checked on 2026-10-14:

• KIPRIS: identical live 바투 marks in every class we need.
  • Classes 9 and 42: 주식회사 씨제이이엔엠 (CJ ENM), registered.
  • Class 41: 이영란 and 이선옥, registered.
  • Class 35: 주식회사 헤즈로 (2025) and 이선옥, registered.
  • Compounds: 바투하루 (35), 바투쌤 (41), 이유바투 and EUBATU (9, 35), 드림조이앤바투 (9, 38).
• Echoes. 투바투 is the fan name of the K-pop group TOMORROW X TOGETHER (빅히트뮤직 holds 투바투 and PPULBATU marks). Abroad, batu is Malay and Indonesian for "stone"; Batu is an Indonesian city, and Batu Khan a Mongol ruler.
• The web: batu.com, batu.app, batu.kr and batu.co.kr are all taken; an app named exactly "Batu" is on the App Store.

Ruling: 바투 cannot be registered for our services. The name stays 다붓이 / DABUSI.