Jared said:
Um, no.
You just can't use round orange shapes to represent elements of a
financial services product and then try to compete against ING who has
made round orange shapes integral to their look.
Feel free to use round orange shapes for anything else.
John says:
Um, only if that flock of expensive lawyers manage to make that argument
credibly.
And apparently that question - I emphasize "question" - is open to
interpretation, at least in the opinion of Charlie ("I didn't see the
similarity") Kreitzberg. Me neither, Charlie.
That's okay. I'm sure there's plenty of money to go around for us "expert
witnesses" to guide the frivolous legal proceedings ....
In the meantime, I think I will, as Jared points out, "feel free" to go
design something that is disturbingly orange and round. For one of my
financial services clients.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jared Spool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "John Vaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "G. Jason Head" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] ING sues PNC over alleged similarities of Web
sites
>
> On Aug 15, 2008, at 8:53 PM, John Vaughan wrote:
>
>> Cool.
>> The usual flock of parasitic sheissters manages to engineer yet
>> another
>> frivolous lawsuit.
>> So now we can't use round orange shapes ....
>
> Um, no.
>
> You just can't use round orange shapes to represent elements of a
> financial services product and then try to compete against ING who has
> made round orange shapes integral to their look.
>
> Feel free to use round orange shapes for anything else.
>
> Jared
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