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[Jon Phillips]

And this is why corporations viciously protect their trademarks. This
is why Google has gone after some who use Google as a verb in common
language. If it gets too much into common language, its hard to defend
as a trademark. There was a court case about crayons in the past about
this.

IMHO, the right thing to do is to make the openswatchbook, pick out
colors, maybe just trademark the name of the book (although we don't
have too if its widely used), and put all our favorite colors into it.
Then we can get some of them professionally printed and sell for
cheap, and releas the collection into public domain so anyone can copy
them, print them, etc.

Yes, you are right a.l.e., there are multiple ways that Pantone could
make one's life hell. Simply taking one to court esp. in the USA would
clean most clocks.

Jon

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:01 AM, a.l.e <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:
> hi
>> You'd be copying the Pantone table, and Pantone would probably argue
>> that "134U" was a trademark.
>>
>
> afaik, one shouldn't be allowed to trademark common words and numbers...
> (i mean: they can't be protected! but you still may get a trademark for
> it if your a company like pantone) and i guess you have to register each
> color as a separate trademark... not sure if pantone did it.
>
> imho, the biggest problem here, is not if it's trademarked or not, but
> that pantone will want to argue with you about it and this will cost you
> much money and effort indipendently from the fact if you or they are right.
>
> ciao
> a.l.e
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