Patent mistake
It’s funny how people decide and rule on such things.
I heard on radio this morning that Adidas won a long running court case against a competitor who was using two stripes. Adidas fealt that it “prevented” (their own words) the use of their “Intellectual Property” of three stripes.
Yes, W.T.F. !
I want to fight this silly regulation. I wonder how best to go about fixing Intellectual Property laws. I’m particularly dismayed WRT software patents in the EU. However I can’t decide which organisation would be the most effective conduit of my time:
April 10th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Are you saying that anyone should be able to produce clothes and stick an Adidas logo on them? Where do you, personally, draw the line in this particular case?
April 10th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
This is not about the logo.
It’s about the “three stripes”. And in this case two stripes was considered too close to three.
April 11th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
I know, I’ll repeat my question: where do you, personally, draw the line in this particular case?
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:14 am
Whose line is it anyway?
Talk about IP protection? Check out this example of someone with too much money and time on their hands..
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20070078663.PGNR.&OS=DN/20070078663&RS=DN/20070078663
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:37 am
I personally think a clothing manufacturer that outputs garments with two stripes should not be worried about being sued by Addidas.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
What about three stripes?
April 27th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Tbh, I think three strips is fine. I don’t think printing the actual logo Adidas is too clever:
http://images.google.com/images?q=adidas logo
Three stripes on my T-shirt should not be considered IP.