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An in-house friend passes this along, with the note, “A good entry for your continuing series on preposterous misapplications of trademark law”:
Deutsche Telekom / T-Mobile demands Engadget Mobile discontinue using the color magenta
Yeah, a cease and desist letter is one way to “open up a dialog.” But doing that with a top blog such as Engadget, you might not open up quite the dialog you were looking for.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:15 am
[...] reported earlier about T-Mobile / Deutsche Telekom’s attempts to assert rather far-flung trademarks rights [...]