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Companies can get trademark protections for distinctive colors that distinguish their brands from others, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled today. Justice Steven Breyer, who wrote the ruling, noted trademarks have been granted for the shape of Coca-Cola bottles, the scent of sewing thread and NBC's three-chime jingle. "If a shape, a sound and a fragrance can act as symbols, why, one might ask, can a color not do the same?" he wrote. The decision reversed a lower court's denial of a trademark for green-gold dry-cleaning press pads made by a Chicago firm. Columbia...
Still, the most important consideration is an Ivy League title, and Harvard will be in good shape should it beat Penn...
...they can pull this off they should be in good shape heading into the games against the Ivy League teams in their division, Yale, Dart-mouth and Brown...
Possibly lost in the rising tide of rhetoric is the potential for much consensus between both parties. Both parties want to increase jobs. Both recognize the poor shape of the American job machine relative to its historical performance in past expansions and recessions. The best way to exploit this fertile common ground may be a recapitulation by the Clinton Administration of the educational tax cut as a retooled and newly-labeled 'human capital (gains) tax cut' complemented by other measures to increase its effectiveness...
Given the inevitability of some kind of tax being offered, a 'human capital (gains) tax' cut is good economics and good politics. This approach may enhance the currently distracting, draining and harmfully digressive debate that appears taking shape between the GOP and the Democrats as both parties attempt to deal with what is surely first among the American public's concerns...