[geeks] Typography Question

[James Fogg]

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 12:11 -0500, Kevin wrote:
> It was my understanding that only the names of fonts could be
> copy-written/trademarked and that there was no way to actually do
> so with the shape as there are no defining methodologies in
> place.  This was supposed to be why you see so many fonts that
> are identical but have different names.

Well, Coca-Cola registered a trademark for that wavy-thingie underneath
the Coke name. It's nothing more than a shape, and it's called the
"dynamic ribbon device". The shape of the bottle is a trademark too.

There is also a band called Dynamic Ribbon Device, so maybe they didn't
trademark the name.