Forum for help to explain a rejection

[Alatriste]

I had some extrange rejections at 123 in some photos of a cellular for copyright. The extrange is that I removed all the logos...

I posted for help in 123 forum but it seems to be dead. Is this guy (Alex) on Holliday?

[RT]

Was it a Samsung? If so all Samsung designs are trademarked, and although I haven't checked I'd imagine some other manufacturers are probably the same.

[Alatriste]

No. Nokia I think. But I have uploaded other tech images: phones, pda, pocket pc,  laptop... and I hadnt rejections for that reason...

The same image has been just accepted in SS:

http://shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=11235055

[snurder]

Was it a Samsung? If so all Samsung designs are trademarked, and although I haven't checked I'd imagine some other manufacturers are probably the same.

The Samsung phones fall under Design Patents, in addition to the regular trademark/logo stuff.

Samsung Phones
All Samsung cellular phones have design patents on them. Here are some example patents:
D528,096
D528,092
D527,716
D528,096
D528,092


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