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T-Mobile Has A Trademark On Magenta, Demands An Insurance Company Stop Using It

The mobile phone carrier is serious about the color associated with its brand. Now, a legal dispute involving T-Mobile's parent is raising the question: Is it possible to own a color?
John Legere, CEO and president of T-Mobile USA, sports one of his distinctive magenta T-shirts. Its parent, Deutsche Telekom, is telling a small insurance company not to use the color.

Daniel Schreiber, the CEO of a small insurance company called Lemonade, was surprised this summer when he received a strongly worded letter from lawyers at one of the world's biggest telecom companies.

"At some level I knew it wasn't a joke, but it sure sounded

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