[cc-licenses] OT: Colour
Antoine
antoine at pitrou.net
Wed Feb 14 05:20:41 EST 2007
> I've tried to track down the IKB patent but to no avail. The number
> usually given for the patent doesn't show up in the French patent
> database, and there are no useful entries for Klein or his collaborator.
The patent has certainly expired, since it was submitted in 1960.
> In theory, since IKB was a uniquely vivid blue for the time, patenting
> the formula would have had the effect of restricting use of that exact
> blue to Klein.
Certainly.
It's interesting to note that today's LCD monitors don't seem to display
the color properly, if Wikipedia is right in its reproduction of it.
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