Will Colgate Get Sued My Microsoft?

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:09 am

Presenting the Colgate 360 Toothbrush, with optional green colour!

http://www.colgate.com/app/Colgate360/US/Product.cvsp

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:17 am

Wow! Even the same colors. It's a very possible lawsuit. Or maybe microsoft stole the 360 look from the brush?

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:41 am

Rofl.

PS - Did you get the screen yet?

Conn · Post by **Conn** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 11:54 am

This is a joke, right?

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 12:18 pm

No screen yet, but it might come by tomorrow!

I was thinking...X-box should buy these brushes and put their name and logo on it. Kinda like what Nintendo did with the cereal and lunch boxes.

Post by **bicostp** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:22 pm

... and pens and shoelaces and alarm clocks and wall decals and temporary tattoos and television shows...

I doubt a lawsuit will be filed, because 360 means a full circle (360 degrees equals a circle)

cennar · Post by **cennar** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:43 pm

and childerns heroen from the 1930s!

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 2:45 pm

bicostp wrote:... and pens and shoelaces and alarm clocks and wall decals and temporary tattoos and television shows...

I doubt a lawsuit will be filed, because 360 means a full circle (360 degrees equals a circle)

And movies and baseball teams (One of the higher ups owned the Seattle Mariners if I'm not mistaken)

Foxx373 · Post by **Foxx373** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 3:09 pm

can you register or trademark a number? Or a color scheme? Umless the toothbrush looks like the X360 or has its traremark logo, im sure nothing will come of this. Good jorb on the spam post Jeff, glad to know u are still alive and well ;} Hows the website goin'?

shmagoogin77 · Post by **shmagoogin77** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 6:20 pm

u probly could trade mark the colors

MM007 · Post by **MM007** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 7:26 pm

Foxx373 wrote:can you register or trademark a number?

No, numbers can't really be copyrighted, at least as far as I am aware. I believe this was the reason that Intel changed from numbers to names for their processors starting with the Pentium.

AMD and Cyrix had their own 386 and 486es, and even used the SX and DX naming convention, so intel used a copyrighted name on their Pentium so that they could make their processor more unique, I suppose. Otherwise, you couldn't really tell which 386es and 486es were the "genuine Intel products" and which were "the other guys' knockoffs".

Perhaps this has changed in the 12 years since the Pentium's creation, though...

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 7:39 pm

G-force wrote:Wow! Even the same colors. It's a very possible lawsuit. Or maybe microsoft stole the 360 look from the brush?

Whoa. I was looking at this, you could be right. It even has the rips off the green circles of the brush for the "Ring Of Light", and the concave Design.

cennar · Post by **cennar** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:17 pm

Foxx373 wrote:Good jorb on the spam

yes yes it is!