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Re:Fluke owns trademark on multimeters with "contrasting yel... by phaemon on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @12:17PM (#7429697)
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 (#7430286)
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.