S�ren Kuklau wrote:

> Jonas J�rgensen wrote:
> 
>> S�ren Kuklau wrote:
>>
>>>> can't use a green dino. A company that makes a plugin for Communicator
>>>> called MacZilla has rights to a Green Dino.
>>>
> 
> 
>>> You can't copyright such simple stuff. I can't copyright the letter 
>>> 'S' or a pink dog either, hmm?
>>
> 
> 
>> If Intel can trademark the letter 'I'
> 
> 
> They can't.
> 
>> , why can't some other company copyright the letter 'S'?
>>
>> (Yes, Intel really did trademark 'I'. See 
>> <http://www.rcollins.org/Trademarks/>, category "We have enough money 
>> to buy anything".)
> 
> 
> I'm pretty sure that trademark is not valid. There is that trademark 
> with the emoticon (was it ";-)"?) which iirc wasn't valid either. And 
> then there's the "Deutsche Telekom" (German Telecom, our former 
> monopolist telecom company) who tried to trademark both magenta (yes, 
> the color. they use it all over their subsidiaries) and 'T' (big 'T' 
> letter, same reason), and iirc failed too.
> 

Microsoft has effectively patented trivial things: ;-)
http://www.theonion.com/onion3311/microsoftpatents.html

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