Can you patent a color?

[alaskakid]

Can a company patent a color? Like not the name of it but the actual color.

 

[MrScruff]

You couldn't patent a colour, but some companies have trademarks on colours

 

[akerbacker]

i dont think so. all the colours already exist. u could patent a pattern tho maybe

 

[mattyb.]

I think you can. I think it was P.diddy maybe, who patented his own color of blue, it might have been 50 cent. But they did do it.

 

[MrScruff]

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/25/cadbury_trademarks_t.html

Some stuff there about trademarked colours. Although it says Yves Klein patented a colour, he in fact patented the method of producing the colour using resins and stuff

 

[Mr_Bojangles]

Kodak patented 'Kodak Yellow', and Cadbury patented 'Cadbury Purple'. Yes, it's possible.

 

[010]

yes, you can patent a color. Bucknell University patented the color of their bricks

 

[killabees]

COLOR

C-O-L-O-R

dayum canadians

naw

but really

 

[Dynastar1242]

jay-z patented a color called jay-z blue

 

[skifree919]

isnt nantucket red patented? But i mean couldnt you just make the same color, and call it something else, and your good? Seems like a silly idea to me