Hi :) Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> So we could call "Freetone 134 U" the same RGB/CMYK values ? As I understand it, trademark law covers more than just the use of a specifically trademarked word. Merely naming an item such that someone would make an obvious association with a trademark can be enough to infringe. I seem to remember a case here in the UK some time ago where the manufacturers of "Penguin" chocolate biscuits successfully sued a supermarket for naming their competing product "Puffin" bars, and using packaging featuring a similar image of an upright dark-coloured bird. Freetone 134 U, would probably fall foul of trademark law for similar reasons - i.e. the obvious association with the Pantone trademark - as, I suspect, would any other system which imitated the Pantone mapping of numbers to shades. Usual disclaimers apply - I'm no lawyer, just some random internet blowhard. ;) All the best, -- Alastair M. Robinson _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
