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Re: [cc-licenses] OT: Colour

From: "Antoine" <antoine AT pitrou.net>
To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] OT: Colour
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:20:41 +0100 (CET)

> 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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