Fluke owns trademark on multimeters with "contrasting yellow border"

Re:Fluke owns trademark on multimeters with "contrasting yel... by Fuxy on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @12:49PM (#7429976)

If there weren't so may multimeters with the same color scheme out there I would agree with you but there are.

Fluke is not the first one to use the color scheme they were just the first to apply for a patent on it.

Even if they were they didn't enforce it until now so it became the general color scheme of all multimeters not just Fluke multimeters.

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Re:Fluke owns trademark on multimeters with "contrasting yel... by chc on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @01:24PM (#7430276)

I really think you're overstating your case.

https://www.google.com/search?q=multimeter&safe=on&client=fi...

Most of the ones that look like a Fluke are indeed a Fluke.

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Re:Fluke owns trademark on multimeters with "contrasting yel... by Fuxy on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @01:38PM (#7430372)

Well on google images there's quite a few however if you look here [1] very few are actually a Fluke.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%...

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Re:Fluke owns trademark on multimeters with "contrasting yel... by landhar on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @01:33PM (#7430337)

I was just pointing out what my understanding of a trademark is and how I think it wouldn't apply for the Dell vs Macbook example.

In any case, I don't think I'm qualified to have an opinion in the case being discussed here. Both because my understanding of trademark law is just a very general sense of what it is supposed to stand for and because I have absolutely no notion of what are the multimeter brands out there and what their designs look like.

For what it's worth, all the multimeters I recall using at school were either all yellow or all black and I have the feeling they were always the same brand although I don't remember what that was (I studied in Europe)

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