Aug 3, 2010: No Yellow for You

Since Yellow is a registered trademark of Whiffle Ball Inc., you can't have any.



Oh, and you people with yellow cars, houses, and clothes, better call Whiffle to arrange royalty payments.

No see, yellow's ok, but YELLOW is strictly forbidden.

Another jackass job well done by bureaucrats, like half the patents issued.

Those cab people are in such deep shit.

I can't WAIT until those bureaucrats are running our healthcare in the US!

We will witness SO much shit, hitting the fan, the blades will stop!

But at least those fans won't be YELLOW!

It only applies to wiffle ball bats (and possibly other crappy plastic sporting equipment in the Whiffle Ball family). For example, I believe Hertz has also trademarked the color yellow for truck rentals.

Pink is a registered trademark for Owens Corning insulation.

Brown is a registered trademark for UPS for delivery services.

You can trademark a color if you have worked hard to make that color recognizable as belonging to your product and nobody elses competing product, and as long as the color contributes nothing to the actual effectiveness of the product. In other words, you can't trademark yellow or orange for a life jacket.

Edit: Amusingly, this thread is making the Whiffle Ball trademark on yellow even stronger by publicizing it.

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Originally Posted by glatt It only applies to wiffle ball bats (and possibly other crappy plastic sporting equipment in the Whiffle Ball family). For example, I believe Hertz has also trademarked the color yellow for truck rentals. Pink is a registered trademark for Owens Corning insulation. Brown is a registered trademark for UPS for delivery services. You can trademark a color if you have worked hard to make that color recognizable as belonging to your product and nobody elses competing product, and as long as the color contributes nothing to the actual effectiveness of the product. In other words, you can't trademark yellow or orange for a life jacket. Edit: Amusingly, this thread is making the Whiffle Ball trademark on yellow even stronger by publicizing it.

How quickly certain individuals find a way to blame this on the government. Is it not the doing of the Whiffle corporation? And if the government did make it possible by legislation, was that not because corporation lobbied for this? And if that sell-out is a failure of government, it is a failure so systematic that the fault lies with the citizens who are overseeing that government. And why? Because they were too busy playing with their damn Whiffle balls.

Forget the color. I'm shocked by the phrase"Made in U.S.A." on a plastic toy. The Chinese have exclusive manufacturing rights to plastic toys.

We could take Glatt's sensible route or blame the Constitution. Article 1 Section 8 Clause 8

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

From now on, I'm pissing magenta!

I've patented magenta. Pay up or piss off. In a different color.

Well, actually patenting is a whole different story. You can only patent a color if it does something. In theory you could possibly patent yellow on a life jacket because it makes you more visible and more likely to be rescued. But patents eventually expire and then other companies can use the idea for free.

Trademarks never expire as long as you are still in business and still using and enforcing your trademark.

Copyrights are supposed to expire, but every time Mickey Mouse is about to go into the public domain, Disney bribes Congress to extend the expiration date of copyrights. So in effect, copyrights never expire either.

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet I've patented magenta. Pay up or piss off. In a different color.

Whoops!
I'm afraid I owe both Whiffle and UPS a little something this morning.

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Originally Posted by newtimer Forget the color. I'm shocked by the phrase"Made in U.S.A." on a plastic toy. The Chinese have exclusive manufacturing rights to plastic toys.

Given that both Whiffle and Wiffle are mentioned in this thread, I guess they have the mis-spelling issue sewn up too.

But just FYI, Whifflers were a (fictional) brand of cigarettes in Dorothy L Sayers' Murder Must Advertise in which Lord Peter Wimsey joins a copywriting firm. His most successful campaign involves the slogan, "If that's what you want you can Whiffle for it" which involves people smoking great quantities of cigarettes in order to collect vouchers. So not a very healthy association really.

You are correct, it is Wiffle. And made in 'Merka! <----- yellow smilie

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Originally Posted by glatt It only applies to .......

I'm compelled now to state that I'm not a lawyer. But I have learned a few thing working in an IP firm for 20 years.

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Originally Posted by glatt I'm compelled now to state that I'm not a lawyer. But I have learned a few thing working in an IP firm for 20 years.

In college, we called the law students "law bags."

No idea why, but I like how it fits with your, ahem, head story.

Oh glatt - just bustin' yer chops, I know you aren't really a lawyer

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Originally Posted by Adak I can't WAIT until those bureaucrats are running our healthcare in the US!

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Originally Posted by thud85 That made me really scratch my head. Some folks' conclusions scare me and make me lose tiny slivers of faith in the advancement of society and humanity. By that logic, is it safe to say "How should we expect the US Military to succeed in Afghanistan when the same damn government can't even hire competent people at the DMV?!!" ...? NO ONE IS COMING TO GET YOU. Unless I'm really that naïve.

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Originally Posted by classicman Oh glatt - just bustin' yer chops, I know you aren't really a lawyer

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl I am also not a lawyer. But I did give head to a law student.

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Originally Posted by thud85 That made me really scratch my head. Some folks' conclusions scare me and make me lose tiny slivers of faith in the advancement of society and humanity. By that logic, is it safe to say "How should we expect the US Military to succeed in Afghanistan when the same damn government can't even hire competent people at the DMV?!!" ...? NO ONE IS COMING TO GET YOU. Unless I'm really that naïve.

Sheldon, you can't pee magenta...Verizon has that one trademarked. And we all learned that Glatt was not an attorney when he knew the word ethics!

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Originally Posted by Adak Actually, the DMV is a different government - State.

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Originally Posted by Adak The DMV office in El Cajon is WONDERFUL - knowledgeable, efficient. They are GOOD! Whomever is running that office, should run for Governor. No joke.

"DMV" that's what some people are calling the national capital area. You heard it here first (unless you heard it somewhere else already.) It's gonna take off like "Beantown" "The Big Apple" and "The Windy City."

Actually, I've always been impressed with the service at my local BMV.

I think it sounds like underwear but that's what they call it. Bureau vs Department.

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Originally Posted by glatt I know, but I'm obligated by the ethics of this industry to make sure nobody thinks I'm a lawyer. If you say I'm a lawyer, somebody else might think it's true, so then I have to make it clear that I'm not.

I'm pissing the whole spectrum! Taste the rainbow bitches!!!


Muahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!

Taste the rainbow...

Swim'in upstream for a pot-o-gold.

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Originally Posted by Sheldonrs I'm pissing the whole spectrum! Taste the rainbow bitches!!! Muahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 Roy G Biv is going to be pissed!

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Originally Posted by classicman Says the lawyer

I trademarked the rainbow already. Sorry!

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Originally Posted by Sheldonrs From now on, I'm pissing magenta!