Re:Fluke owns trademark on multimeters with "contrasting yel...
by phaemon on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @12:17PM
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You just need to wait a bit before replying. The link takes some time to appear.
Your claim that they're "aping the design of Flukes" is unsupported. I haven't seen any evidence that Fluke invented that design or colour scheme, rather than it becoming a fairly common format for multimeters and then Fluke deciding to copyright the design.
Re:Fluke owns trademark on multimeters with "contrasting yel...
by rtkwe on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @01:26PM
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Ah I'd never seen the link appear later before.
A lot of older multimeters look like this: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/show-your-multimeter!/540/ or something similar at least once handheld meters with multiple modes started to become an actual item. That whole thread is a decent cross section of multimeters, though it's skewed towards nice older meters as opposed to lower grade meters.
a) That's in the UK where Fluke doesn't have the same protections.
b) Those are newer, cheap, meters aping the design of Flukes, for that search to mean anything it should look back before Fluke's popularity or at least before they started using the current trademarked design.
c) Past just the first page the split gets much more even.