XPost: uk.politics.misc 
 From: tims_new_home@yahoo.com 
  
 "AnthonyL"  wrote in message 
 news:5db2e2d4.13104515@news.eternal-september.org... 
 > On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 08:53:40 -0000 (UTC), Incubus 
 >  wrote: 
 > 
 >>...because it's a cube. 
 >> 
 >>  "The court said: 'Given that the essential characteristics of that shape 
 >> are 
 >>necessary to obtain the technical result consisting of the rotating 
 >>capability 
 >>of that product, that shape could not be registered as an EU trademark.'" 
 >> 
 >>https://news.sky.com/story/rubiks-cube-firm-left-puzzled-after 
 losing-eu-trademark-11843918 
 >> 
 >> 
 > 
 > They'll be after the Bass Triangle next: 
  
 that's advertising material 
  
 not the product itself 
  
 The rules are different 
  
 Companies try and trademark their "product" shape in order to stop someone 
 making clones of the product 
  
 The trademark on the Bass symbol does not (is not intended to) stop anyone 
 from making a taste-alike version of their beer. 
  
 tim 
  
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