"This is mine, that is mine... ALL this is mine."

[denny]

As pointed out on IRC:
Royal Mail, the Royal Mail Cruciform, the colour red and SmartStamp are all registered trademarks of Royal Mail Group plc.

Does anything in there strike you as a tiny bit on the broad side, as trademarks go? :)

Comments

[kaz-pixie.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty certain that a postbox couldn't be a trademark because it just isn't. There is a technical way of saying this. It isn't a graphical representation, it's a thing, and as such would have to be patented or copyrighted as a sculpture if they could claim it was original.

I think.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

A trademark applies to an area of business, or some such - I think the point here was that they only have 'red' trademarked when it's in the context of postal delivery services (or something along those lines).