By Ron Coleman
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.
UPDATE: As of April 3, [2008,] T-Mobile has taken no further action.
Ron Coleman
[…] reported earlier about T-Mobile / Deutsche Telekom’s attempts to assert rather far-flung trademarks rights […]