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It's kind of silly that you can trademark a color like that. Maybe Sparkfun should have Fluke's red meters stopped at the border because they are red, the colo
by pmorici 13y ago
It's kind of silly that you can trademark a color like that. Maybe Sparkfun should have Fluke's red meters stopped at the border because they are red, the color associated with the Sparkfun brand. It probably doesn't make business sense for them to do that though.
http://www.fluke.com/fluke/tten/Digital-Multimeters/Specialty-Multimeters/Fluke-28-II-Ex-Intrinsically-Safe-True-rms-Digital-Multimeter.htm?PID=74148 http://www.fluke.com/fluke/tten/Digital-Multimeters/Specialt...
Fluke's entry level meter is $130 on Amazon maybe they should make a less expensive model for Sparkfun to sell to the makers.
- olefoo 13y agoIt's not a patent. It is a trademark, or trade dress registration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress If you make agricultural equipment and paint it a bright green and yellow; John Deere will come after you because at least some people might get the impression that you are at the least trying to take advantage of their reputation.
- pmorici 13y agoThat's my point, Sparkfun's trademark is red packaging and PCB's. Fluke makes a red meter Spark fun should ask them to stop selling that meter because people might confuse it with a Sparkfun product.