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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Feb. 6, 2008

In Living Color

Focus Column - By Glenn Dickinson - Nontraditional sources such as color, sound and scent present unique trademarking issues.

FOCUS COLUMN

By Glenn Dickinson
This article appears on Page 5.

      Trademarks, traditionally, consist of a name or image. Back when virtually all advertising was done in paper, the trademark had to be static and reproducible on the two-dimensional surface of a newspaper advertisement or product package. Radio and television introduced the world to the idea of sounds and moving pictures as source indicators. The proliferation o...

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