Can you trademark a color?
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Well I suppose you can trade mark anything. A US pharmacuetical company trademarked the name 'adrenaline' (which is a hormone released from the adrenal glands of the body) which forced the US to be the only western english speaking nation to have to call it epinephrine so they weren't infringing on copyright. I suppose if that can happen you can trademark a colour as well.
Link?Inverse Skies said:
If they really did that, then that is amazing (amazingly evil, yet still amazing).
Dammit! That's what I wanted!Random argument man said:
No, but really.
What kind of color is that? Kinda green? Kinda blue?
Somewhere in that. Can't really describe it. You'll only want to steal it away from me.TenthRegeneration said:
[/under breath] He knows about the plan!Random argument man said:
[/normal voice] Fine...then I'll have...Forrest...Opall? It's totally different. It's got two LLs. Totally different color.
Now now, don't try to ***** with me. Or else I'll send Samuel L. Jackson. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czb4jn5y94gTenthRegeneration said:
I counter your Jackson with my Tarantino!Random argument man said:
Tarantino, I choose you! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_vbvRbBtUI
Then I take Forrest Opall. ^_^
Related: you can patent a strand of DNA or a whole genome. It can even be naturally-occurring.
Anyway this reminds me of when T-Mobile claimed they had a trademark on the colour purple.
No-one seems to understand what a trademark is here. It's being used interchangeably with copyright and patent. Like this guy:
Also as has been shown, you can trademark a colour. As with any trademark, it has to be something that identifies your brand or product, and other traders may only be in breach of it if they used it to market something similar, or with the intention of making people think it was your product when it was actually theirs. In the T-Mobile case I seem to remember it was someone who ran a T-Mobile hater website with a purple colour scheme who was being sued.
A trademark is a mark used in trade (surprisingly). Copyright covers people's rights to copy or lack thereof. Patent comes from the Latin patere meaning "to make public or open to scrutiny", as anything covered by a patent must be described in a publicly available document to the level of detail necessary for someone to build a duplicate.
Anyway this reminds me of when T-Mobile claimed they had a trademark on the colour purple.
No-one seems to understand what a trademark is here. It's being used interchangeably with copyright and patent. Like this guy:
You can't trademark a process. You can patent a device or mechanism involved in the process.forever saturday said:
Also as has been shown, you can trademark a colour. As with any trademark, it has to be something that identifies your brand or product, and other traders may only be in breach of it if they used it to market something similar, or with the intention of making people think it was your product when it was actually theirs. In the T-Mobile case I seem to remember it was someone who ran a T-Mobile hater website with a purple colour scheme who was being sued.
A trademark is a mark used in trade (surprisingly). Copyright covers people's rights to copy or lack thereof. Patent comes from the Latin patere meaning "to make public or open to scrutiny", as anything covered by a patent must be described in a publicly available document to the level of detail necessary for someone to build a duplicate.
I think everyone is missing the point. Why exactly did the OP buy a geiger counter over ebay?
Also I call Viridian. =P
Also I call Viridian. =P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdrenalineTenthRegeneration said:
I didn't learn it from wiki (textbooks for uni is where I found it out originally, because its weird to keep switching between adrenaline and epinephrine depending on whether its an English or American textbook) but the info is in there under terminiology.
Doesn't this make a mockery of the whole system? Surely the whole point of the patent and copyright system is to protect something you created, not something you found/stole* and thought you would rip off.oktalist said:
*I remember now hearing about cases where Doctor's have taken samples from patients and then patented the resultant genes, without any comensation for the person who it came from. Your post reminded me about it.
