A Conversation for Purple
An omission perhaps?
MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Started conversation May 30, 2009
I new there was something that had been nagging me about Purple, and it was the case 'Cadbury v Darrell Lea' over the use of the same colour purple as that used in Cadbury Dairy Milk packaging. The Judge ruled in Darrell Lea's favour, stating <quote> "Cadbury does not own the colour purple and does not have an exclusive reputation in purple in connection with chocolate in Australia. Darrell Lea is entitled to use purple, or any other colour, as long as it does not convey to the reasonable consumer the idea that it or its products have some connection with Cadbury."
http://www.ipfrontline.com/depts/article.asp?id=11984&deptid=7
Cadbury does have the purple colour trademarked elsewhere. The colour is the shades of purple corresponding to the following references in the 1997-1998 PANTONE Colour Formula Guide: 2597c, 2607c, 2617c, 2627c, 266c, 267c, 268c, 269c, 2685c, 2695c, 273c, 274c, Violet C, 2735c, 2745c and 2755c” The Cadbury Dairy Milk shade in question is 2685C.
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An omission perhaps?
You can call me TC Posted May 31, 2009
Yes - 
chocolate seems to often come dressed in purple. In Germany, Switzerland, etc, it is the ubiquitous "Milka" - but that is a far lighter lilac colour than the Cadbury colour.
Not to mention our own smiley, of course, where the wrapping is also mauve.
This is a fascinating entry, Gnomon, and so varied. Who would have thought of looking up Dickens for a quote on the Perkins purple.
Just up the road from us is the BASF, the Anilin-Fabrik. They made this part of the world rich by using Perkins invention. I have never heard his name mentioned in that connection. Probably someone else discovered it simmultaneously here - I shall try and find out. Sorry I didn't mention this while it was in Peer Review.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted May 31, 2009
I think once Perkin discovered the purple dye, everybody started making it, and experimenting with different colours. Patents in those days only extended as far as country boundaries.
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You can call me TC Posted May 31, 2009
Ah yes - according to the BASF's own site, the founder, Friedrich Engelhorn, only produced the dyes (at first fuchsin). There is no mention that he invented them.
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You can call me TC Posted Feb 24, 2011
This just cropped up in the "Useless FActs" thread:
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