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T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom trademarks the color Magenta!

By Will Park on Thursday, November 8th, 2007 at 1:26 PM PST In T-Mobile, Telecommunications

T-Mobile trademarks the color MagentaAs Core77 put it, “All your Magenta are belong to T-Mobile (NYSE: DT).” It seems the German-based Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) and their mobile arm, T-Mobile, have trademarked the color Magenta. They’ve essentially put “dibs” on the freakin’ color Magenta!

To be fair, the trademark only applies to the tele-communications sector, so anyone using the color Magenta as it relates to phones, digital media, the freakin’ internet, etc. Anyway, below is a copy of T-Mobile’s trademark verbiage from their website.

T-Mobile trademarks the color Magenta

But wait, there’s more. It turns out that Deutsche Telekom also sued a media publisher for using the color Magenta in an ad-campaign.

It looks like T-Mobile and parent-company Deutsche Telekom are looking to corner the market on the Fuschia Hot Pink Magenta. It seems the iPhone and positive revenue growth just isn’t enough for T-Mobile, they’ve gone after the rainbow too.

[Via: Core77]

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3 Comments on “T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom trademarks the color Magenta!”

  1. JaXX says:

    Hum…

    I’ve gotta trademark Orange then :-)

  2. Will Park says:

    Well, I call dibs on Purple!

    …..Oh, and Silver! :lol:

  3. Pierre says:

    the irony being that it’s not really magenta #FF00FF.. it’s something like #FF0080

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