I don’t think of them as Registered Trademarks or Copyright Symbols anymore.
I think of them as demonic R’s and C’s that some angry intellectual property lawyer’s wizard summoned from Hell.
Thankfully, they used the proper magic circles to bind those monsters and prevent them from running amok.
The problem is when they summon a regular Trademark Symbol from Hell.
That TM shows up without any protective circle.
Sometimes, they use protective parentheses, but that leaves the TM two avenues of escape.
I don’t feel so bad about a intellectual property lawyer getting slaughtered, but the wizard didn’t deserve it.