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I noticed the article stated...
wrote ... A company named Fluke holds a trademark on multimeters that have a 'contrasting yellow border.'
I knew it was possible to register a trademark (as in a true logo or name), but to allow any company to have control of a colour scheme is simply ridiculous!
Now, if they had Fluke stamped all over them that would have been a different matter...
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the trade marking of colors is sort of allowed, as with pink and corning or yellow and fluke, but as previously said, if challenged they arnt really upheld by courts. ROY-G-BIV is 7 colors and why should 7 or so companies be able to claim this or that right to the exclusion of others.
(unless your a small buisness, then your F'ed)
Large buisnesses generally have an easier time laying tricks and traps for smaller buisnesses...
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Patrick wrote ...
the trade marking of colors is sort of allowed, as with pink and corning or yellow and fluke, but as previously said, if challenged they arnt really upheld by courts. ROY-G-BIV is 7 colors and why should 7 or so companies be able to claim this or that right to the exclusion of others.
(unless your a small buisness, then your F'ed)
Large buisnesses generally have an easier time laying tricks and traps for smaller buisnesses...
According to Wikipedia, humans who aren't colour blind can 'see' at least a million different colours, maybe more than 2.3 million, "simple exponentiation gives a total number of colours discernible by an average human as their product, or about 1 million; nevertheless, other researchers have put the number at upwards of 2.3 million"
I'm sure the colour of the meters in question isn't exactly the same as the Fluke yellow, or maybe it is?...Can anyone add to this?
Cadbury, who make and sell chocolate here in the UK, and probably elsewhere, have copyrighted a certain shade of purple, known as Pantone 2865c, however, the courts have not upheld this copyright
Maybe we should organise a boycott of Fluke in support of Spartkfun. I'm sure there are other manufacturers with products of the same, or better, quality as Fluke, and Sparkfun is far more closely alligned with the aims and values of this forum than Fluke is. I've never bought a Fluke meter, and after this I certainly never will.
EDIT: Sparkfun said in a press release on 19th March "Our multimeters are actually kind of orange, not Fluke yellow"
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