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

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

  2. 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.

  3. 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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    What I wouldn't do for the ability to mod "-1, Plain Wrong"
  4. 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.