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For some background, the reason these laws exist is to protect consumers from counterfeiters. If someone produces jewelry in a clean baby blue box, customers wi
by asperous 7y ago
For some background, the reason these laws exist is to protect consumers from counterfeiters. If someone produces jewelry in a clean baby blue box, customers will start to expect that same level of quality, etc. They will be ripped off if someone else uses the same packaging but a low quality product.
However many things have to be considered from the consumers perspective. Is there likely confusion? Is one of the main things courts are supposed to consider.
- penagwin 7y agoYeah I don't understand their reasoning here. If some cell service company started using the colors of verizon/sprint/T-mobile I could see that as confusing and potentially misleading. But outside of their market, they should have no say on who uses that color.
- techwizrd 7y agoFrom the article, there is overlap in their markets. To add even more color to the kerfuffle, Lemonade filed a motion yesterday with the European intellectual property office to loosen Deutsche’s legal vice-grip on the color, and has petitioned to remove DT’s color-rights on magenta in the insurance sector. The problem is, T-Mobile actually does offer insurance on services like cybersecurity and tech-gadget protection policies, which could add a touch of gray to the magenta dispute.
- pitaj 7y agoPlease don't quote with code blocks. It's painful to scroll horizontally, especially for mobile users. Without code blocks: > To add even more color to the kerfuffle, Lemonade filed a motion yesterday with the European intellectual property office to loosen Deutsche’s legal vice-grip on the color, and has petitioned to remove DT’s color-rights on magenta in the insurance sector. > The problem is, T-Mobile actually does offer insurance on services like cybersecurity and tech-gadget protection policies, which could add a touch of gray to the magenta dispute.
- faeyanpiraat 7y agoThis.
- dickeytk 7y agoI know HN is super minimalistic but I’d love a way to indent quotes considering how often we do it here
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoI'm not against that but what is wrong with using a carrot? It works well.
- dickeytk 7y agoIt doesn’t indent
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoWhy is this a problem? Visually, it's very clear what is and is not a quote.
- dickeytk 7y agoSo that it’s more clear? and supports multiple paragraphs Do you indent your code? Or are the curly braces enough?
- Wowfunhappy 7y ago...clearly we're not going to agree on this. Yes, I indent code, but—while I've never thought about this before—I actually think using carrots could work equally well! I'd add one carrot per ident level to the start of every line. Back to quotes, for multiple paragraphs, I just add a ">" to the start of each paragraph.
- rhizome 7y agoI can't find the text of the demand, but there's a thing called "trade dress," though I'm not sure if reaches to sometihng this basic and without more design elements.
- tenaciousDaniel 7y agoI'm so sorry to do this, but it's "counterfeiters".
- nkrisc 7y agoThe "counter-fitter" is the guy who cuts the granite for your kitchen.
- everybodyknows 7y agoThe post title itself has a worse one. Should be either: T-Mobile demand Lemonade stop using the color magenta or T-Mobile demand that Lemonade stop using the color magenta "Demand to" is a solecism.
- burundi_coffee 7y agoThat would make sense if T-Mobile actually provided good service.
- yellowapple 7y agoDo they not? I certainly haven't had any problems with them, but I switched to them from Sprint, so my tolerance for sucktitude is a lot higher than average.
- bluGill 7y agoDepends. All cell phone companies have areas where they provide bad service, and areas of good service. T-mobile has historically had the least coverage, which is the greatest way to suck, but that has been changing.
- rhizome 7y agoI started with TMo for ethical reasons about 10 years ago, but their SFBay coverage has been really spotty for me in general the whole time. No bars in office buildings, in the suburbs, on underground public transportation where other people appear to have active connections...just lots of inconvenient holes.
- jturpin 7y agoI know its at least a year out but I'm personally looking forward to the 600Mhz 5G rollout - theoretically the range will be unbelievable. I don't want gigabit speeds when I'm 50 feet from a tower, I want 10mbps wherever I am!
- mitchdoogle 7y agoI've been on T-Mobile for 15 years and have had great service the whole time. There have been a few unexpected perks along the way as well that have helped me out, such as free wifi on flights and free international calls. Just thought I'd voice an opinion of someone who is satisfied with T-Mobile