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Cadbury and the purple trademark

Now companies want to pretend they invented colors, shapes and words. What can't money buy?

" So enjoy your Cadbury Screme Eggs this October and appreciate that pretty purple on the wrapper."

Alternatively, don't buy anything cadbury; don't support this stupidity.

I can't believe that big business can now trademark a color. Virtually every brand has an associated trademark color. Does this mean that I have to get permission from UPS to paint my house brown. How about pay some royalty to Coke for the red truck I drive. Soon It will be sounds, styles, smells etc... that you will be sued for because it is too similar to something else. You don't think? Apple just did it to Samsung. I realize that blatant stealing of Intellectual property is and should be addressed but a color??? I can already see the greedy little corp lawyer rubbing their hands together over stuff like this. This is the kind of law that really stalls entrepreneurial development.

I hereby commit myself to using this color of purple (whichever it is) in as MANY applications as I possibly can. If this "makes" me a "criminal," then so be it...

Meanwhile, I guess this increases the list of products I boycott for the fault of being arrogantly stup!d...

A shameful UK judgement, in the same poor light as barking mad US trademarks on software, and 'methods' beloved of Apple.

As there are 16.7 billion colors in 24bit color depth, surely they can't have all 10 million (or so) purple ones. Pantone colour matcher out to distinguish Nestle Purple from Cadbury Purple

Perhaps Cadbury should concentrate on driving their business with product development, than Apple Lawyer behavior. The sublime Philadelphia blended with Cadbury's chocolate is a great example here.

The company I work for has had a certain shade of red and a certain shade of blue trademarked for our industry since the 1970s.

Companies outside our industry can use them, but in our niche industry they are ours.

The Red Sox have had the shade of green painted on their famous left field Green Monster wall trademarked for decades on everything. Tshirts, plush toys, hats, you name it.