Apple has reportedly gotten friendly with Japanese company Aiphone. The two companies have apparently come to terms with the use of the iPhone trademark in Japan, allowing both Apple and Aiphone to use the trademark. Aiphone has reportedly been talking to Apple since last summer over the iPhone trademark. While Aiphone isn't exactly the same as [...]

As Core77 put it, “All your Magenta are belong to T-Mobile.” It seems the German-based Deutsche Telekom and their mobile arm, T-Mobile, have trademarked the color Magenta. They’ve essentially put “dibs” on the freakin’ color Magenta! To be fair, the trademark only applies to the tele-communications sector, so anyone using the color Magenta as it relates to phones, digital media, the freakin’ internet, etc. Anyway, below is a copy of T-Mobile’s trademark verbiage from their website. But wait, there’s more. It turns out that Deutsche Telekom also sued a media publisher for using the color Magenta in an ad-campaign. It looks like T-Mobile and parent-company Deutsche Telekom are looking to corner the market on the Fuschia Hot Pink Magenta. It seems the iPhone and positive revenue growth just isn’t enough for T-Mobile, they’ve gone after the rainbow too. [Via: Core77 ] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Deutsche Telekom snatches up entire DVB-H spectrum in GermanyDeutsche Telekom to expand T-Mobile USA network with acquisition of SunCom WirelessDeutsche Telekom posts 8.6% revenue growth for T-Mobile, 42% data revenue growthApple taps T-Mobile as German iPhone carrierWhere Fixed Line and Mobile Merge