Oh, really? Did they trademark all magenta colors (yes, there are a few)?. Did they trademark all magenta tints (is a 99% magenta the magenta they have trademarked)? Will they be able to take a phone company to the courts if their colour is "very similar to" magenta?

Sheesh! There are issues we should be concerned about. And then there are issues...

Its common knowledge that Intel had to change the magenta in the Centrino logo to a pink colour, after a brush with T-mobile lawyers.....crazy

Interesting idea, but then again I bought myself an Nokia N95 fairly recently (nuts to the iphone) from o2, and still the box it arrived in was the generic Nokia one, and I have to say there's bits of magenta and white all over it. Open the box and suddenly there's more white, blank and magenta colours. When I flicked through the manual the first thing I actually thought is that it looks like something from T-Mobile...

Salford City council painted everything magenta several years ago. They even replaced all the wheelie bin lids with sorry magenta ones.

Never mind, it's probably OK as long as nobody uses it near a phone number or on a web site