Can you trademark a color?

[Becoming Insane]

w00t. *eats cookie.*

 

[HentMas]

WELL, actually the mixture of a colour or the "formula" for creating that colour CAN be trademarked, if you didn´t know the "Ferrari red" does exist, it is owned by Ferrari and they paint their cars with it, the formula is secret and if you steal it you can get busted

well, that's what a friend of mine who loves and knows a lot about Ferrari told me

 

[Archemetis]

I'm patenting the colour white and the ability to process thought.
anyone after me now owes me money.

 

[Arcyde]

I call army green.

Now I own every army.

 

[teh_gunslinger]

There is always this [http://www.freemagenta.nl/?page_id=121].

Edited for English page instead of Dutch.

 

[INSERT-NAME-HERE]

what if you accidentally discoverit
(or if you discover it and you are coulourblind but it happens to be a particularly nice shade of reddish green)

 

[Syxx]

Trademarks are not the same thing as copyrights.

..and 3M has Blue trademarked for their painter's tape.
http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/painting_masking/painting_masking/product_information/scotch-blue_painters_tape/

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

They wouldn't own the color brown, they would own the Color Brown in regards to Shipping and Parcel Services, sort of like how Blizzard owns the word Diablo for all Game Development. They do NOT own Diablo, you just couldn't make a game titled Diablo.

Similarly you couldn't start a Shipping/Parcel and use Brown as your key color, UPS has trademarked that as their brand identity.

 

[Zannthebored]

I call dibs on the specific hex color #00CC00.

Did you call that because it's supposedly the same green as link's tunic?

 

[INSERT-NAME-HERE]

even though parcel paper is brown...?

 

[Ranooth]

I shotgun turquoise

 

[Snowalker]

umm.. screw it, white, just to screw with the post office. I can just see it now "wheres all our letters?" "oh a guy trademarked white, so now we can only mail large packages, you know, because their brownish-yellow rather than white."

 

[RavingLibDem]

yes you can tbh, because the Royal Mail does with the colour red, but in this case the trademark only applies in that field, so it just means that no other mail company can use red as their primary corporate theme.

 

[triorph]

A lot of people here seem to be getting confused between trademark, copyright and law. I'm pretty sure you can trademark a colour, although there are some weird rules that go with it.

Like i'm pretty sure BP has a trademark on the colour green, although it is in "the colour of freshly mown grass" is their trademark, so it can't prohibit others from using the colour green, just that green is a significant part of their trademark.

 

[Zildjin81]

A while back some Russian guy tried to trade mark the smiley face emoticon ( :

 

[Becoming Insane]

I call dibs on the specific hex color #00CC00.

Did you call that because it's supposedly the same green as link's tunic?

It is. check it out on a color slider.

 

[ElephantGuts]

Oh no, UPS says I can't use the color brown? I'd better burn my desk before the feds find me.

Wait a second. Does this mean that black people...are illegal? Man, and I thought the KKK was racist. UPS takes it to a whole other level.

 

[Avida]

I remember hearing on one of these internet news sites that Jay-z has his own shade of blue, I might have to hunt around for the link, either way it should be bullshit - im not paying a bunch of royalty fees for using a cocking gradient.

 

[cthulhu257]

Dibs on the Colour out of Space, and any radiation that comes with it.

 

[Seydaman]

no, they cant, id like to see them try to enforece it .

**some guy walks around the corner with brown shoes, a swat team comes and breaks his legs**