Fluke owns trademark on multimeters with "contrasting yellow border"

Re:Fluke owns trademark on multimeters with "contrasting yel... by VLM on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @12:39PM (#7429861)

"closest thing there is to a generic high-contrast colour scheme for multimeters"

Lets imagine the outcome of two theoretically unrelated possibilities:

1) For safety reasons someone (who?) has purchased an OSHA regulation which now requires that all electricians use high contrast yellow multimeters, yellow indicating their, uh, safety-ness or something.

2) Fluke has paid the .gov to be the only legal yellow multimeter supplier.

I know #2 is true. I suspect but have no evidence #1 is true.

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Re:Fluke owns trademark on multimeters with "contrasting yel... by maxerickson on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @12:42PM (#7429887)

I suspect you are a space pirate.

What a pointless thing to enter into your widely connected information appliance. If you think it is true and has some merit as an idea, spend the couple minutes to actually inform us, alternatively just don't bother telling us what you think might be true.

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Re:Fluke owns trademark on multimeters with "contrasting yel... by rayiner on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @01:03PM (#7430117)

This is not only unsubstantiated handwaving, but also totally illogical. Maintaining a trademark costs about $500 every ten years, and it doesn't cost that much more to file. So your #1 is made up, and your #2 is totally gutless.

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