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Funny the article made no mention of smell, which one might suspect would be treated in a similar way.
by nmstoker 8y ago
Funny the article made no mention of smell, which one might suspect would be treated in a similar way.
- CapitalistCartr 8y agoIn the United States, smell copyright is well-established case law. Smells can be copyrighted if they're not a functional part of the product. Perfume no, smell added to shovels to distinguish your brand, sure. Edit: Trademark, not copyright, damn it!
- mey 8y agoIs that copyright or trademark?
- CapitalistCartr 8y agoYes, trademark. I don't know what possessed me.
- Angostura 8y agoPlaydoh recently managed to trademark its smell.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoThat's interesting, I thought the smell was a result of the ingredients - which would make it non-distinctive and unsuitable for a trademark (as others would be excluded from making the product so the trademark would operate as a perpetual patent). Maybe the smell is a trademark only for other goods (I don't know what Class Playdoh falls in, toys?), eg Playdoh scented merch? On searching I found an informed, brief treatment here https://loweringthebar.net/2018/05/play-doh-smell-trademarked.html https://loweringthebar.net/2018/05/play-doh-smell-trademarke....
- type0 8y agoit's IP - i.e impossible plonkers
- ummonk 8y agoThat's surprising. Smells to distinguish your brand seems more like a trademark than a copyright...
- reality_czech 8y agoIf Oracle gets its way, code smells will be copyrightable as well.
- JDWolf 8y agosmells like burnt money
- r00fus 8y agov11i smells like software license audits.
- PunchTornado 8y agothey have plenty
- techdragon 8y agoIs it actually copyright or a protection similar to trade dress like the use of a specific colour delivery vans and matching uniforms.
- maxxxxx 8y agoMakes me wonder, is there any formal representation for smells like we have with colors?
- tyingq 8y agoNot in English, but...http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/01/15/this-language-names-odors-as-precisely-as-english-speakers-name-color/ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/01/15/this-la...
- oneplane 8y agoI think one of the problems is that color and what you see is somewhat tightly related where taste and how taste works is highly varied. While you can get some sort of single-molecule chemical representation of some specific smell or taste, that would be static (as in, the formula or construction wouldn't change) but most people would smell different things. I suppose for those 'inventions' the recipe or method would be trademarked/copyrighted/patented but not the result.
- frozenport 8y agoNow, you might be shocked to learn that color can be part of us design patents.
- ergothus 8y agoThere is a whole world of professional "noses" used by perfume companies. They have a system for describing "notes" but I know far too little (and honestly, don't want to know more) to say more than that.
- donkeyd 8y agoThe same for wine. However, research has shown that adding red food coloring to white wine, causes people to smell the notes that are usually smelled in red wine. [0] [0] https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/08/the_most_infamous_study_on_wine_tasting.html https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/08/the_most_infam...