| Re: Microsoft wants to patent smilies! WTF?! [message #169361 is a reply to message #167911] |
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warranto
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| Chronojam wrote on Sat, 27 August 2005 01:10 |
| Chronojam wrote on Wed, 24 August 2005 02:59 |
If I make a stylized "peace" sign the symbol for my company, and then get a copyright on it, is that so unthinkable or impossible to have happen?
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Suppose though this sign were special. I could put a little symbol down digitally, and a vastly distributed operating system would recognize it was my characters, and instead replace it with my logo for me. Let's go a step further and have it recognize my symbol as standing for both those characters, and my company.
Too far fetched?
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That has nothing to do with Patent law, as it is not an industrial design. That is Trademark law, as it is something that is used for easy recognition of a company. They have two completely different methods and requirements of obtaining them.
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