ryujin470@fedia.io to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 23 days agoAre color schemes used in UIs of video games and computer software subject to trademark?message-squaremessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up114arrow-down1message-squareAre color schemes used in UIs of video games and computer software subject to trademark?ryujin470@fedia.io to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 23 days agomessage-square5fedilinkfile-text
Colors can be trademarked in conjunction with certain services. Does this applies to UIs of computer programs as well?
minus-squarehendrik@palaver.p3x.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-223 days agoSure. Why would a computer UI be an exception? Law applies to computer interfaces the same way as it does to other things. Trademarking colors is difficult though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_trade_mark
minus-squareBlisterexe@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up6·23 days agoTldr: you can do it, but you have to argue real well that the color is distictive and associated exclusively with your brand. An example of a trademarked color is ups brown
Sure. Why would a computer UI be an exception? Law applies to computer interfaces the same way as it does to other things.
Trademarking colors is difficult though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_trade_mark
Tldr: you can do it, but you have to argue real well that the color is distictive and associated exclusively with your brand.
An example of a trademarked color is ups brown