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    Archive for the 'trademark law' tag

  • 03
    Apr

    Apple vs Big Apple

    Another big trademark issue this week:
    The Big Apple has a new logo, and Apple says: Drop dead.
    At issue is the emblem for New York City’s GreeNYC campaign, which has started to appear around the city on bus shelters, hybrid gasoline-electric taxicabs and even Whole Foods shopping bags.
    The GreeNYC logo shows a stylized apple with a [...]

  • 31
    Mar

    Owning Color

    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. Read more…
    T-Mobile, old buddy. Listen, you gotta pick your fights. UPS Brown? I [...]

    Posted by Dustin in Art & Design

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