T-Mobile Owns Magenta Color? What’s Next

First A Brief Excerpt From The Wired Article:

Ryan Block of Engadget assures us that this is not an early April Fool gag. Deutsche Telekom, owners of T-Mobile in Germany, has sent a letter to the gadget blog demanding that it stop using the color magenta.

You have got to be joking T-Mobile.  Are you that big of a moron? Next thing you know I won’t be able to use a smiley face, drawn an arch, or use “Micro” in any way.  This is just insane.  T-Mobile, stop being an rtard, you may not have the color Magenta.  While I’m at it, Walmart, you also may not own the smiley face.  Why don’t we just go find a company who used Magenta before T-Mobile, and prove that they own it.  And then we can go back further, maybe to the first paining to ever use it, and claim they own it.  Maybe it will even go back to some archaic cave painting.  Since I am the direct decedent of the cave man who drew that, I think that I now own T-Mobile as well as the color magenta.

You can’t own a color, bottom line, end of story, Good Bye.