Comments on: Copyright Confection: The Distinctive Topography of the Hershey Bar http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2012/10/copyright-confection-the-distinctive-topography-of-the-hershey-bar/ Thu, 23 May 2013 15:32:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: mpv http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2012/10/copyright-confection-the-distinctive-topography-of-the-hershey-bar/#comment-344 mpv Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:34:15 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/?p=1827#comment-344 Exactly... it's a forehead-slapper. "Trademark Treat" would have more appropriate. Exactly… it’s a forehead-slapper. “Trademark Treat” would have more appropriate.

]]> By: martin snyder http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2012/10/copyright-confection-the-distinctive-topography-of-the-hershey-bar/#comment-343 martin snyder Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:36:29 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/?p=1827#comment-343 Great. Lawyers and hyper legalistic thinking have already just about destroyed the patent system, and now a whole new Pandora's box is opened. Rent-seeking rather than innovating gets a country nowhere fast..... Ideas (software) should not be patentable, and physical objects should not get trademarks....duh.... Great. Lawyers and hyper legalistic thinking have already just about destroyed the patent system, and now a whole new Pandora’s box is opened.

Rent-seeking rather than innovating gets a country nowhere fast…..

Ideas (software) should not be patentable, and physical objects should not get trademarks….duh….

]]> By: Pretzalcoatl http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2012/10/copyright-confection-the-distinctive-topography-of-the-hershey-bar/#comment-342 Pretzalcoatl Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:10:26 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/?p=1827#comment-342 I would think that like generic terms in wordmarks, functional design elements themselves can take on secondary meaning. We tolerate the capture by businesses of generic terms, thereby depriving competitors of the use of that generic term (subject to likelihood of confusion), so why not functionality? I would think that like generic terms in wordmarks, functional design elements themselves can take on secondary meaning. We tolerate the capture by businesses of generic terms, thereby depriving competitors of the use of that generic term (subject to likelihood of confusion), so why not functionality?

]]> By: ghurley http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2012/10/copyright-confection-the-distinctive-topography-of-the-hershey-bar/#comment-332 ghurley Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:45:55 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/?p=1827#comment-332 I know "copyright confection" is a fun alliteration, but trademarks and copyright are not the same thing. I know “copyright confection” is a fun alliteration, but trademarks and copyright are not the same thing.

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