Quote Originally Posted by Lee View Post
There seems to be some confusion between what you think we applied for and what we actually applied for.

We applied for a trademark, NOT a patent, they are significantly different things

Once granted a trademark actually prohibits companies changing things 'just a little' and in fact prohibits them changing a lot to still look similar to our trademark.

Regards,

Lee
This topic actually interests me quite a bit as it just doesn't seem logical (not that you are incorrect, just in a general legal sense). I did get confused with patent and trademark, yet I did continue to look this up on the web. It seems most of the trademarks are not enforced unless it is extremely specific and within the same genre, and even then it has failed. One example I saw was the life savers stripe on their candy. Another company used the same colors just in a separate order, and Life Savers lost. While another was two companies who published law books and used the same color red. That company won. I just don't see how someone can trademark / claim a color? Would this mean you could go after anyone who used the color blue? Or the entire scheme gray/blue etc would have to be the same? Seems Acacia-esque.