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[menw]

I'm getting my first car and i wanted to know if I could get it custom painted Tiffany Blue, since its a copyrighted and trademarked color.

[morcan]

If you have the money you can get your car custom painted any color. Just be prepared for the cost of it though. If you get a candy coated paint job it could run you anywhere from 5k to 35k just for a paint job, depending on how many coats are used. People have their entire interior deced out in gucci, or LV, prada, etc cloth. Doesn't matter as long as you have the money for that type of stuff.

[shipley]

If it's a copyrighted/trademarked color, you would need to get permission from the copyright holder to do it, but that's probably next to impossible to do, so you would need to go with a shade that is very close to the color you want, as so nobody can sue you or something.

[vemados]

I think as long as you change your registration at the same time, you can have you car painted any color you want.

[boynton35]

I find it highly unlikely that the color is copyrighted, and fairly doubtful that it is trademarked. It's not like Tiffany invented it or created it or designed it. It's a color, which is a combination of light frequencies; or in the case of printed materials, a certain formula of ink. It existed long before Tiffany even thought to use it.

The name might be trademarked though. The design and logo using the color is copyrighted and probably trademarked.

If you have a source for the claim that it's copyrighted and trademarked, I'd be glad if you could post it just so I could research this more.

Edit: per http://www.tiffany.com/service/policy_tra.aspx , "The names TIFFANY, TIFFANY & CO., T&CO., TIFFANY 1837, TIFFANY FOR MEN, THE TIFFANY MARK, TIFFANY GRAND, TIFFANY LEGACY, TIFFANY CELEBRATION, PURE TIFFANY, TIFFANY HEARTS, TIFFANY JAZZ, TIFFANY SIGNATURE, AMERICAN GARDEN, ATLAS, LUCIDA, SCHLUMBERGER, SELECTIONS, STREAMERICA AND TESORO, as well as the TIFFANY BLUE BOX and the color TIFFANY BLUE are trademarks of Tiffany (NJ) LLC. and/or its affiliates and are used under license. All designs copyrighted by Tiffany and Company, except where otherwise noted." I suspect that means that "Tiffany Blue" is trademarked. Plain old "light medium robin's egg blue" is not trademarked.