Legal protection for color

From: GATFWORLD | Date: March 1, 1999| Author: Harold, Richard W; Kraai, Gerald M | Copyright information

While many people know that color can be protected as part of an overall trademark design or as part of the trade dress of a product, they may not realize that a color can be a trademark and, as such, subject to legal protection. It was in 1995 that the U.S. Supreme Court held that a color could be a trademark and could be registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

This article reviews the legal basis for considering a color as a registered trademark, and it also reviews some...

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