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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?


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