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T-Mobile Claims Trademark In the Color Magenta

Posted by kdawson on from the quit-breathing-my-patented-air dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday Engadget Mobile received a nice letter from Deutsche Telekom / T-Moblie demanding that they stop using the color magenta on engadgetmobile.com. ("Yep, seriously" they say.) Today several sites have gone magenta in a show of solidarity."

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  1. on that note by nih · · Score: 4, Funny

    i just got a trademark on the the colour blue, watch out IBM!

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  2. Slashdot Participation? by Kelson · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot could join in by reviving the OMG Ponies theme. Pink is close enough to magenta, right?

    1. Re:Slashdot Participation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Slashdot will not join because they are just a bunch of whining little Linux pussies...

  3. So what does this mean by Jodaxia · · Score: 4, Funny

    for Hello Kitty?

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  4. It's so obvious! by SSNTails · · Score: 5, Funny

    The real April Fools on /. is that the web server is probably running on Win2k3 for a day.

  5. Re:A throwback to the Roman Empire? by Zedekiah · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you wear magenta, however, you probably deserve it.

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  6. Re:Are they kidding? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Noone is suing anyone.


    Peter Noone is suing anyone?

    That seems a bit excessive.
  7. Free Magenta by tijmentiming · · Score: 5, Funny

    Check out this website. It's filled with anti 'T-Mobile owns Meganta' drawings, pictures, comics and graphics.
    http://www.freemagenta.nl/

    I especially like the one from Michael Wolbert (do a search for his name), somewhere on 1/3 of the page.

  8. Re:A throwback to the Roman Empire? by irn_bru · · Score: 2, Funny

    Leave Glasgow out of this.

  9. Re:they have a point by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Huh? Looks pretty magenta here.

    Oh, you must be browsing with IE, with its built-in auto-trademark-enforcement.

  10. Re:A throwback to the Roman Empire? by Sanat · · Score: 2, Funny

    Especially if you live in San Francisco

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  11. Re:ROFL by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm gonna trade mark the Sky.

    Hey, hey! You, you! Get offa my cloud!

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  12. Re:A throwback to the Roman Empire? by Swampash · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you referring to the toga praetexta, the toga pulla, toga picta, or a variation of the toga trabea, and as worn by men, women, citizens, freedmen, plebeians, patricians, quirites, priests, members of the Senate, or some other group?

    Actually, I'm gonna go with "not knowing what you're talking about".

  13. oblig. simpsons quote by lijkert · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lawyer: "Excuse me, but what are you doing?" Homer: "I'm writing a song!" Lawyer: "Go ahead, but don't use A-flat or G-natural. Those notes are owned by disney." Homer: "Awww..." Lawyer: "That's A-flat!" Homer, on the same note, but rising: "Awww..."

  14. You screwed up! AHAHHA by deft · · Score: 4, Funny

    AHA! You just got the trademark on the "colour blue".

    i got the trademark on the COLOR blue, which is good in the USA, not just across the pond!

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  15. Re:A throwback to the Roman Empire? by kylehase · · Score: 3, Funny

    Roman Salvation Army stores?

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  16. Re:Wrong, try again. by SpinyManiac · · Score: 2, Funny

    True, but I couldn't be bothered to type that. It doesn't change the essential fact that they've tradmarked a colour, just a more specific one.

    Are UPS the company of choice for shipping Zunes? ;)

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