Engadget sued over use of color

[admin]

Deutsche Telekom / T-Mobile demands Engadget Mobile discontinue using the color magenta

So last week Deutsche Telekom, owners of the global T-Mobile brand, sent Engadget a late birthday present: a hand-delivered letter direct from their German legal department requesting the prompt discontinuation of the use of the color magenta on Engadget Mobile. Yep, seriously.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/deutsche-telekom-t-mobile-demands-engadget-mobile-discontinue/

[blutach]

You can't copyright a colour or as AACS just showed, a number.

What a load of bullsh!t

Regards

[UncasMS]

What a load of bullsh!t

you name it

it's so pathetic but they are playing hardball when it comes to MAGENTA

[drfsupercenter]

So I could get sued if I made something in my website magenta?

They're gonna have to cripple FrontPage now, or else who knows what might happen *gasp* LOL

[admin]

I think it was the combination of a website about mobile phones and the use of the colour that led to the trademark infringement.

I did notice the other day a local bank had trademarked the colour blue, or what they called "ANZ's colour blue", see bottom of this page:

http://www.anz.com/

[blutach]

I have a mate whose initials are BP and he's a winemaker. He has this tiny little logo that looks nothing like British Petroleum's one (not does it use yellow and green). Some f*ckwit from their IP lawyers wrote him and ordered him to change his logo. He (not being just a simple farmer - in fact, before becoming a winemaker, he was one of the top IT security consultants in the country) wrote back and told them they had no copyright on the alphabet and to f*** off (in those words). Never heard from the idiots again.

See here for his logo.

Regards

[admin]

I just got an email from this online store that I buy my HDMI cables from:

Due to a dispute with the holders of the US Patent for HDMI (big brother) we have changed our name from HDMIOZ to EZYHD.

I can't believe that you can't use the domain name "HDMIOZ.com" - so are all domain names with the word "HDMI" not usable, or just "HDMIOZ"?