Aug 3, 2010: No Yellow for You
 

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

http://cellar.org/2010/yellow.jpg

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! :eek: :eek:

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

But at least those fans won't be YELLOW! :p::p:

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.

You mean it's not just the big bad gubmint trying to ruin our lives again? Damn!:rolleyes:

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.

Amber Alert!!!!

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