Color also plays an important role in brand identity.

Coca-Cola is red, Facebooks blue, and so on.

A number of companies have actually succeeded in trademarking and owning colors that their competitors cant use.

Yes, your company can trademark a color — here’s how

Yourcompanycan also attempt to trademark a color, but it wont be that easy.

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General Mills, for example,has failed to trademark yellowfor its Cheerios box.

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Story byIoanna Lykiardopoulou

Ioanna is a writer at TNW.

With a background in the humanities, she has a soft spot for social impact-enabling technologies.

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