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Starbucks dances on Conga
Starbucks is suing Conga Coffee and Tea, a tiny two-store operation in Michigan, for trademark infringement link here. Both use green circles around a small center picture, so there is a vague resemblance. But this is a case of an elephant trying to stamp on a mouse. Incidentally, Conga has been in business with the same trademark since 1996, and went unnoticed until now.
[Posted at 11/13/2007 06:55 AM by John Bennett on IP as a Joke 
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Color me purple, but not magenta--its trademarked
T-Mobile claims to own the color magenta, ostensibly having put it under trademark. The law on this is complicated beyond belief, which allows an otherwise ridiculous determination to continue to be enforced. Read all about it here and
here.
Who is going to sue at great expense to get it overturned?
[Posted at 11/06/2007 07:21 PM by John Bennett on IP as a Joke comments(0)]
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