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  • This logo, do you think it may be a trade mark issue.

    Posted by Ian Pople on November 4, 2010 at 7:53 pm

    Hi all,

    Have a customer who wanted this sort of logo designed but do you think it will be a problem with a similar logo all ready in the field. I have drawn it from scratch took a few Min’s.

    Any one please tell me how similar a logo can be to be classed as infringement. I do not want to get into trouble.

    Thank you all.

    Ian


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    Mo Gillis-Coates replied 13 years, 6 months ago 6 Members · 8 Replies
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  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    November 4, 2010 at 8:46 pm

    ill be honest mate, at a glance i thought male toilets. 😕

    i think it depends on what logo you are referring too also… well that maybe wrong way to put it. any copyright logo is a copyright… but do you have a picture of the similar one for us to compare?

  • Ian Pople

    Member
    November 4, 2010 at 9:17 pm

    I know I was thinking that lol.
    I just quickly did it did not want to spend much time on it.

    Ian


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  • Martin Pearson

    Member
    November 4, 2010 at 10:35 pm

    Sorry Ian but I thought the same as Robert when I first saw it, can’t think why anyone would want a logo that looked more like a Health & Safety sign.

    I’m no expert when it comes to copyright either but I would have thought there would be issues with it as it is basically the same, why does he want something that someone else is already using? Do they have a good name and he’s trying to cash in because that’s the only reason I can see for it.

  • Lynn Normington

    Member
    November 4, 2010 at 10:38 pm

    Ian I’m sure you can do him something better than that, in no time at all

    Lynn

  • Ian Pople

    Member
    November 4, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    Yep, but that’s the idea he had and it only took a few Min’s to draw.

    Well back to the drawing board and I could all ways use it on the little boys room.

    Thanks every one

    Ian

  • Jill Marie Welsh

    Member
    November 4, 2010 at 11:25 pm

    Yup I would come up with something that would blow his socks off.
    Funny enough we have all been discussing a similar business logo on another forum I go to, this one looked like it had a lawnmower in it though.
    The second logo you posted is nasty enough to make me wonder why anyone would want to emulate it.
    Nothing against you, it’s not your fault.
    Love….Jill

  • Martin Pearson

    Member
    November 4, 2010 at 11:28 pm

    Ian you could always sell it to big companies as an executive washroom sign. :lol1:

  • Mo Gillis-Coates

    Member
    November 5, 2010 at 7:15 am
    quote Martin:

    Ian you could always sell it to big companies as an executive washroom sign. :lol1:

    no that’s funny :lol1:

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