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 -- Tha cuid ag radh gu'm bheil e 'na shaor. Tha cuid ag radh gu'n robh e 'na aonar.
