Yes there are Coke red lots of things. All you need is a pantone color meter and you can get anythings cmky values or spot numbers. Its a custom mixed ink though so you will only get close or you have to have toyo mix up a copy which they will do as long as you don't tell them its COKE red.
If you are making a product that is so close to a minion that you need minion yellow you have other trademark issues. Also why are you just repeating what I said. Which is that unless you are infringing on their market with a product they can't do much. Its not the color that gets you in trouble unless you are using it to deliberately cause confusion like make unauthorized minion stuff. That will get you sued. If I make a minion yellow toaster and I do it with CMYK colors there is jack all they can do.
and I think this is the trademark you where looking for.
http://www.trademarkia.com/company-cocacola-company-the-260937-page-6-2
http://www.trademarkia.com/company-cocacola-company-the-260937-page-6-2
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 2:54 PM, karl shah-jenner <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think the point they made quite well was that Pantone was releasing a colour to the market, specifically promoting it's tie in to the film franchise. Sure, if i'm just just looking for a vague yellow colour for a plant seed packet then no harm done.. maybe.
But hey - who'd pick that colour randomly? The fact that Pantone is highlighting it as a specific 'cute' colour means people will be specifically choosing it - it has been brought to their attention. Not just to Time-Warner, not to toy manufacturers, but to the pantone buying market.
So you pick this colour for the next colour release of an anthropomorphic bubble shaped car, a whimsical costume, a child's toy of any description, a confectionary products font .. then you've already declared you deliberately used a 'Minion' color - how can that be anything but trying to cash in on another's market? .. and thus leave you wide open to face litigation.
I think the point is well made.. I certainly wouldn't touch the colour. Has there been a coke red car? No chance.. does anyone use coke red?
interesting thought.. what is Coke Red?
According to one source, the US patent and trademark office http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=78149708&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch records it as this: http://pantonecolors.org/pantone-484.php
but that drab effort appears to have been lodged in 2002. I read elsewhere that Coke's red is not represented in a Pantone colour range - maybe for the reasons made in the original article. Why thow open a marketable colour to the world?
