I won't buy a Dimarzio...

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Edgecrusher said:
Yeah and it would only take you selling about 80000 cream pickups to recoup that cost. Considering that they sell about 1 cream for every 10 blacks this probably is not a sound investment. Much better things a company can do with a million bucks.
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I was being sarcastic. Until congress cleans up some of the biggest messes in intellectual property law there is no way for a mid-size company to get their rights.
 
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Unless ALL of the companies affected by such a stupid law band together and get it revoked.
 
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guitarrob said:
I meant having the trademark revoked.
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It would be better to clarify the intent of color trademarks first. Then the judges have a chance to judge whether a particular one applies or not. Plus the government agency can, too.

The intent of color trademarks is that you cannot make your late-comer loser late product look like the already successful product of a competitor and steal sales that way, by way of deceiving the customer. Protecting the customer is the main intent here.

The classic example is a box of cereals on the supermarket shelf. The leader has a magenta box. Competitor comes in and uses identical magenta. Stolen sales. But the thing is: the cereals are the cereals, the color is for the sale activity. The color comes off before you eat them.

DiMarzio gained this color trademark based on saying that he was the only company offering them during a 10 year period, which is a ridiculous claim in the first place. But more importantly, since the color is not just a sales vehicles and it stays on there is a disadvantage for the consumer. The competitor's product is made worse (for those customers who want double cream).

And as I said earlier, in Europe there were smart enough to clarify that a color trademark can only be gained for a whole thing, not a part of a thing (that's why Bare Knuckle knuckles and can make all the double cream they want). We need such a clarification here.
 
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uOpt said:
Instead of *****ing about random government agencies trying to implement law as well as the law allows you will have to nudge your congress people.
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Sorry, bureaucracies don't get off that easy with me. Somebody higher up at the relevant agency could easily say, this makes no sense, soon all the trademarks will be used up because there is a limited supply of basic colors and tell DiMarzio, no you can't trademark "cream". But they didn't, because that is the nature of bureaucracies. Common sense is bred out of every branch of government, legislative, executive and judicial. But it's at its worst in that segment of the executive called bureaucracies, which is where (other than law enforcement) all our encounters with government occur and that's why I will continue to "*****" about them to my heart's content.
 
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Zhangliqun said:
Sorry, bureaucracies don't get off that easy with me. Somebody higher up at the relevant agency could easily say, this makes no sense, soon all the trademarks will be used up because there is a limited supply of basic colors and tell DiMarzio, no you can't trademark "cream". But they didn't, because that is the nature of bureaucracies. Common sense is bred out of every branch of government, legislative, executive and judicial. But it's at its worst in that segment of the executive called bureaucracies, which is where (other than law enforcement) all our encounters with government occur and that's why I will continue to "*****" about them to my heart's content.
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What do you expect a $7/hour clerk to do?

We need clarification on the scope and intended purpose of trademarks, by law markers, aka congress.

Even the Euros with their even more crazy setup got at least a clarification of the "must be whole product" issue, much to the delight of Bare Knuckles.
 
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I'm not arguing your point about writing a law more clearly, just saying bureaucracy sucks to the point that even if the law is worded more clearly, they'll still find a way to screw it up. I also suspect that the decision making is not done by $7/hour clerks, not only because higher ups do that but because the min wage in DC is $8.25...
 
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Zhangliqun said:
I'm not arguing your point about writing a law more clearly, just saying bureaucracy sucks to the point that even if the law is worded more clearly, they'll still find a way to screw it up. I also suspect that the decision making is not done by $7/hour clerks, not only because higher ups do that but because the min wage in DC is $8.25...
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We didn't outsource it to India yet?
 
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night of the living dead thread .....



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