Owner review 25 — rulings (2026-10-14)
Status: Active · Date: 2026-10-14 · Answers: "Can also look into 마주, 두루, 어울 and their variants?" Evidence: 마주 and 두루, 어울. Companion: review-24 rulings, with 다붓 and 바투.
Verdicts
| Word | Verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|
| 마주 / Maju, Majoo | Blocked | Identical 마주 pending in KR classes 9, 42, 43 and 45, and registered in 36 and 38. MAJU is pending in US class 35; Maju Digital (Germany) holds 9 and 35; Majoo is an Indonesian POS software brand |
| 마주침 / Majuchim | Risky | Clear on the registers and every domain, but built on the blocked 마주 stem. It reads as 마주 + 침 (saliva, acupuncture); 마주치다 also means "bump into" |
| 마주봄 / Majubom | Risky | Registered in class 41 (education); the domains are taken |
| 마주해 / Majuhae | Risky | Clear, but a bare verb form on the 마주 stem, and "ae" breaks the vowel rule |
| 두루 / Duru | Blocked | 주식회사 두루두루 holds 두루 (Duru) in classes 35, 36 and 41; two class-9 marks; a "두루" community app; the domains are taken |
| 두루두루 | Blocked | The same company holds it in classes 35, 36, 41, 42 and 45 |
| 두루미 / Durumi | Blocked | Registered in class 42 (two holders); CJ Foodville holds a class-9 ordering-app mark; the domains are taken; and it is a mascot noun |
| Doru | Risky | Koreans read it as 도루, a stolen base in baseball, and KIPO compares it by sound with 두루 |
| 어울림 / Owlim | Blocked | Identical marks in classes 45, 35, 41 and 36 (금호건설 alone holds six); 33 live marks in our classes; also the Education Ministry's national anti-school-violence programme |
| 어울 / Oul | Risky | A verb stem, not a headword. Registered in class 9; sound-alikes in classes 42, 38, 41 and 36 |
| 어우름 | Usable with conditions, weak | Not a dictionary noun for "bringing together" (우리말샘 lists it only as dialect for a fruit); one mark in class 36 |
| 어울마당 | Usable with conditions, weak | A gathering place; descriptive and long; civic centres use it |
| 한어울 | Risky | A coinage; Haneoul is one letter from Haneul (하늘, "sky") |
On the Latin side: the Revised Romanization "Eoul" reads as a typo of Seoul. "Oul" and "Owlim" read best, but no respelling saves a blocked Hangul word, because KIPO compares marks by sound.
The pattern, and the ruling
The warm, common "together" words (마주, 두루, 어울림, 바투) are exactly the ones Korean brands registered long ago. 다붓이 is a rarer word of the same meaning, and its KIPRIS search is empty in all seven classes. That rarity is why it is clear.
Ruling: the name stays 다붓이 / DABUSI.