I know that Burberry is so easily ripped off because you can't patent "plaid" even though it is a distinct plaid. That said, I'm going to wager, no, you can't patent a colour. But this is just a guess.

Oh, and the reason the pattern for Louis Vuitton, Chanel, etc. are patented is because they are a logo.

Damn, my mom really ****ed with my head when I was growing up.

easy there teabag. this is america, our patents apply to colors.

I would think that it is more of a trademark than a patent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark

interesting, apparently colors can be trademarked. but given the definition i doubt that it will interfere with our partiular project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_trademark

I think Bianchi's Celeste would be a classic example of color as a trademark.

i can see where you're coming from, but lots of companies make celeste colored items. bartape, tires, even deep vs. are we to believe that they are paying bianchi? or maybe the color is just different enough to get around the law.

anyhoo, i doubt sanrensho patented their blue, and if they did i think we can approximate it without running afoul of the lanham act. any law students out there?

30 Minutes

AAAAAAAAAND THE WINNER IS... srb

ahem - what timezone?

im psyched that srb won.

my wife just gave a warcry of victory

we could run this **** 'till tokyo time but we all know whats going to win

so BRG got second so if srb doesn't work out thats what we get

I vote for white

I'm surprised that polished and clearcoated (my fav) got as far as it did!

I think cadbury's trademarked purple. I don't think you could 'patent' a colour.

neon green! !!



!!!

Please tell me again...how many people do we need as a group to get this deal? Was it 50? Can those that don't want SRB "re-poll" and try to come to an agreement of 50 people for another color? I'd like to see Neon Green and Neon Pink get together and make it happen as well as those that wanted Orange and Brown. LOL, there goes my two cents.

Agreed. Though I don't know whether there's really over 100 people on here willing to buy a frame. If there are, a re-vote for something other than SRB would be nice.

You should have elimination polls. The top 3 colours from this poll go to the next round (Neons for Mark V). BFSSFG colour tournament lmao

How is this poll representative?

There are only about 30 people committed so far, yet we receive 280 votes?

I think a better way of determining the color is to have the people that are actually commited to buy one add their top three choices.

oh god, are you liberal cry babies demanding a recount again? you lost, move on.

While I like the result of the poll...there is an issue...you could vote for multiple colors. I will be up front and say I did. I voted for every color listed that I would buy the bike in. That is how you get so many votes.

And until someone has put their money down (and I am about 100% sure no one has yet) NO ONE has made any commitment to actually buying a bike. Also the vote thing says there were 167 votes (not 280) so I am not the only one that voted for more than one color.

For the record I voted for everything other than the 2 neon colors and brown.

the poll is over, the color has been decided.

let's all have a good cry and move on.

so its gonna be srb with a chance of british racing green?

i'm ok with that.

I agree...either of those colors will be very nice.

Now...can we really get SRB?