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|  chlenEthically ChallengedPremium
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2 edits | said by SilverSurfer1:Colors that are in general use are not trademarkable. Somebody better wake up the T Mobile's legal dpt. Colors are, in fact even insulation cannot be shades of pink and blue unless it is made by Dow chemical.
Coke owns the Red shade on the bottle.
Colors are trade-marketable and carry the market area and 3 year active use policy as do all trade marks.
BTW this is part of my master's thesis.
»building.dow.com/styrofoam/what.htm
here is an example of Dow's blue trade mark.
®™* Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company ("Dow") or an affiliated company of Dow
**The color Blue is a Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company
Don't speak if you don't know.
edit - mistype
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| |  DogfatherPremium
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4 edits | Re: Ridiculous If not an April Fool's joke, this one will certainly be interesting. Engaget obviously isn't selling the same product but the color could conceivably (in the twisted minds of lawyers) confuse people into thinking that T-Mobile somehow owns, contributes or endorses the site.
But in the states, I don't think T-Mobile has the color recognition of Dow Corning Pink insulation (that actually has commercials based on the color) or Cingular had with their ugly orange. Ask 100 people what color a coke can is then ask 100 people what color the T in T-Mobile is.
Also if you look at their branding history (eg on the internet way back machine) the shade of magenta they use has changed over the last few years, none being like the shade used by Engadget. »web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.tmobile.com hardly establishing the same brand identity of Coca-Cola or Owen-Corning's pink insulation.
On the flip side, T-Mobile can just end up making a bunch of influential nerds angry and more inclined to write neg article after neg article about T-Mobile. Is it really worth pissing off a lot of people to protect a portion of the trademark that may not even be enforceable. | |
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| Re: Ridiculous i think apple owns the blog site. too many apple related articles even the worthless article from Apple is longer than any microsoft related artice. Like that time, Vista SP1 was announced, they only post one short article and another diffrent article demonstrating the iphone sdk. | |
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| | | | Congratulations. You're writing a thesis. No one in the entire history of the world before you has ever written one, so I can see why you would want to announce it.
Secondly, there is far too much case law on the matter to debate this on an intellectual/informed level with you. So let's just call it a day and conclude how very smartified you are since you are, after all, writing a thesis. (shock. gasp.) | |
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| | | can they counter sue for "stupidty"? | |
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| | Hmm This explains why I couldn't open a cellphone account at this blog site, duh! | |
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|  Romney2012Defeat Obama 2012-Chg we can believe inPremium
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kudos:4 | Re: Uh oh!!! I like this web page making fun of t-mobile:
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| |  dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
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kudos:18 | Re: Uh oh!!! said by Romney2012:I like this web page making fun of t-mobile: LMAO! OWNED! 
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| | lol engadget engadget reply is even better. for today they made their background magenta lol. | |
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| | John Deere Green... ...Meet T-Mobile Magenta!
But seriously is this for real? Isn't T-Mobile aware that magenta is also used as one of the colors in almost every bubble jet and color laser printer I can think of. What they are going to do next? Go after every single bubble jet and color laser printer manufacture for using magenta toners and inks.
Legal letters are not meant to open a dialog. It is meant to communicate legal matters. It is obvious T-Mobile doesn't respect the intelligence of their customers and the public in general.
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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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|  EchoDMoon Dust HighPremium
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|  sitrix
join:2002-04-15
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|  Killa200Premium
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| | | Guess that leaves me with black. Sweet!! | |
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| I wonder... I wonder if Orange would have gone after them if that spelled Mobile in Orange colored letters. This is getting pretty stupid. As long as they do not mimic the registered graphic "T" they should be able to use magenta to their hearts content.
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| | Hands OFF! Stay away from Magenta you thieving thieves! | |
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| | HA HA HA! This has to be an April Fools Joke. I'm on guard this year. Won't fool this time all you www sites! | |
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|  Speedy8Premium
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Alliance, OH | Re: The internet nerds are slipping Actually it's real, they posted this news yesterday. | |
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1 edit | haha... Is it time to take the banhammer out yet? Trademarking a color is impossible to do as it'd put everyone including the company's employees under use of it because everything contains colors now a days. Besides, my printer has a Magenta ink tank in there so I couldn't be able to use that tanks, and in result, have no red tones on my printer. Ever hear of a crayon? :P | |
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Chicago, IL | Engadget added more Magenta If you look at endgadget.com today it appears out of spite they have made their entire background magenta. Good stuff | |
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1 edit | I think I'm going to trademark a color. Tomorrow I think I'm going to trademark the color red. Anyone who uses red must cease-and-desist or pay me plenty for trademark infringement. I will, though, out of the goodness of my heart, give everyone who's blood is red 90 days to change their blood color. After 90 days, that's it! I'm going to sue the bloody !@^*%#! out of you. | |
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Tucson, AZ | Magenta ? Cant be true must be April fools.. course T-Mobile has been March and May fools in the past....more important than building out your network?? | |
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