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How can shellac be trademarked. Shellac is used for furniture etc and has been around for 100s of years.
Shellac is made from a type of beetle, does the cnd one have real shellac in it?
Anyone that has shellac in the product should be able to say that it has but I doubt any nail polish actually has shellac. After all shellac is just an item like paint, milk etc.Reading a little about it I am guessing cnd are trying to keep the market to themselves and seeing they are extremely overpriced compared to this brand they don't like it. ( see comparable kits, bluesky $100, cnd $600)
This is a load of crap, not what you've said but a company trademarking Shellac. I've looked it up and apparently it's trademarked for virtually all clothing and nail care.
As you say Shellac is just like Paint, in that it's a word that shouldn't be able to be trademarked. Maybe I should trademark paint and then sue all of the big paint companies. I would assume that although they have a trademark that it is virtually impossible for them to enforce it especially if their competitors were selling the products before the trademark process was completed.
I have no idea about nail polish but I'm giving this a positive to level out against the absurd neg.
Think of it like this.
Hoover make vacuums.
A company in china create a knock off to compete called "Ultra Hoover Vacuum" using cheaper imitation parts, who swear its just as good as a real hoover.
Hoover then trademarks the name as to retain its status as the first and to differentiate from the cheaper knockoffs.
(CND require professional training before your allowed to use this on people. Bluesky just give it too you and say go for it)My problem is not that its cheaper to buy.
Its a cheaper alternate to a professional quality original.
My point is, if you need to add the trademarked name of the company you compete against into your website to sell your knockoff, that speaks volumes about the company its self.
I believe they changed the chemicals in Bluesky to make it safer now, due to initial complaints, so good on them.
But using a trademarked name within the website to refer to the original brand is just straight up dodgy
How can shellac be trademarked
The name shellac, referring to nail polish was trademarked 2012 in the USA.
Shellac as a product itself is not trademarked.
Nor is it in bluesky or CND products.Apple make 4G iphones from electronics, not apples.
Yet if there was a company called yellowground who had a website that advertised their 2G phones named as "apple telephony ephone" and gave you 200 more colours to buy the mobiles in, i'm sure people would consider this a knockoff as its not relevant to the product and its blatantly obvious they're using the apple name to up sell the inferior phonesThis isn't like Apple or Hoover though, this is like Woolworths trademarking Apple pie and then even when other places make an Apple pie they aren't allowed to market it as an Apple pie.
So now other companies can put Apples in pies but they can't tell their customers that they are Apple pjes…
So now Woolworths could put their trademark on their apple pies but here's the kicker, even though they have a trademark or a patent that doesn't mean that they can enforce them. If they attempted to enforce it (which from a quick search it looks like they never have) they would no doubt lose.
I could go and get a patent something silly that shouldn't be patentable such as having a phone with a speaker near the top, I could then go and trademark the phrase 'speaker' for a phone and unless someone has already done so (scarily possibly with the patent war between Samsung and Apple) i could hold them (the tm and patent) but it's unenforcable.
Once again and simply, they hold unenforcable trademarks because then they can market theirs as the one and only meaning all others are fakes. They do this to justify high prices when they would have similar overheads to the 'fakes' but as someone that has done work with shellac in the past while I can understand that there may be an advantage to using shellac nail polish it's absurd that the word shellac is trademarked.
@rekabkram: lol neither CND shellac or bluesky use "shellac" in the product. SHELLAC IS THE TRADEMARK NAME… Thats it!
Woollies sell apple pie containing apple.
Other people that make apple pie can make apple pie and can call it apple pie!But Sara Lee apple pie is not the same as Nanas apricot tarts.
Imagine. Nanas apricot tarts taste like shit, but everyone loves the good old Sara Lee apple pie.
The Nanas makers say "oh well, ours tastes like shit but Sara Lee makes the $$$!!!, lets advertise our food as "Nanas Sara Lee apple apricot Tart"That is straight up fraud.
Although CND shellac dont claim to use beetle
excrement, they released few ranges of colours for proffessional quality polish (like the limited ranged of natural shellac colour variants) and called it "Shellac"Bluesky, came along and thought, "well this makes CND lots of money, lets make a knock off and advertise the same wording so idiots dont know the difference and think about the pocket cost vs the chemicals and blatant theft of droping buzz words that happen to be trademarked"
I give up, paint your eyelids with cheap shit IDGAS!! i'm going to repco to buy a plastic titanium bigmac quarter pounder drill bit and pay my bill with the hungry jacks iphone app on a windows phone.
Make more products on sale please
The product was formerly known as Bluesky Shellac. CND trademarked the word “Shellac”, which meant that at the end of 2012, only CND were able to use the term “Shellac” for their products.
Yet click the link and see this gel referred to as
"Shellac UV Gel Polish"
Why does this company continue to use shellac in its naming for its product. Its misleading.