{"id":2780,"date":"2011-08-15T09:59:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T02:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2012-01-17T14:06:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T07:06:56","slug":"trademarking-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/2011\/08\/trademarking-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Trademarking Color?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/071511-YSL-Louboutin-600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2781 aligncenter\" title=\"071511-YSL-Louboutin-600\" src=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/071511-YSL-Louboutin-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/071511-YSL-Louboutin-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/071511-YSL-Louboutin-600-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Yves Saint Laurent vs Louboutin<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">French designer Louboutin started using a glossy red sole on his high fashion shoes in 1992 and trademarked the red sole in 2008. \u00a0YSL&#8217;s 2011 spring collection included a red shoe with red sole &#8211; and a blue shoe with a blue sole, a green shoe with a green shoe, etc. In April Louboutin <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/louboutin-sues-ysl-yves-saint-laurent-red-sole-shoe\/story?id=13329514\">made the news<\/a> when he filed a trademark infringement suit against YSL for using the red soles.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2788\" style=\"width: 144px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/red-sole1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2788\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2788\" title=\"red-sole1\" src=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/red-sole1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trademark Application Drawing<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last week\u00a0the injunction against YSL was denied. In US District Judge Victor Marrero&#8217;s words &#8221; . . .\u00a0no one should be barred from using color to achieve their aesthetic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s a controversial decision and there will be an appeal. \u00a0Both sides are covered in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/BUSINESS\/08\/11\/new.york.shoes.ruling\/\">CNN article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The big question is: When is it appropriate\/not appropriate to trademark the use of a color?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yves Saint Laurent vs Louboutin French designer Louboutin started using a glossy red sole on his high fashion shoes in 1992 and trademarked the red sole in 2008. \u00a0YSL&#8217;s 2011 spring collection included a red shoe with red sole &#8211; and a blue shoe with a blue sole, a green shoe with a green shoe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colorscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}