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Cadbury does not own the color purple

A Cadbury's chocolate bar with Yesterday, I brought you a story about a victory for Ferrero Rocher. Well today, here's a victory for the little guy.

There's been a five year court battle between Cadbury and an Australian chocolate maker, Darrell Lea. The international chocolate giant claims that it owns the color purple as far as packaging and marketing chocolate is concerned. Cadbury says that Darrell Lea, who uses purple for "its store signage, uniforms and products was too similar to its own and confused customers."

There are only so many colors, in all reality. There are far more people making chocolate products than there are colors to go around. As long as one isn't directly copying the look of another, I think that we can share a few colors.

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Filed Under: Business, Ingredients
Tags: australia, Cadbury, chocolate, DarrellLea, purple

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Rob

4-15-2008 @2:14PM Rob said... What would Opra think about someone else owning "The Color Purple"
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Kevin

4-16-2008 @4:06PM Kevin said... Purple is not a color, technically speaking
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