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Don't use Pantone 123 in your product because that's Fluke trade dress. =)

Pantone, a division of X-Rite, is owned by Danaher. Fluke is also owned by Danaher. I have no particular point, other than I found it interesting that the two brands of shared parentage collided spontaneously in conversation.

Fluke and the sister measurement companies (like Tek) were spun out of Danaher in 2016 and are now called Fortive. More corporate shenanigans.

Ahh, interesting, good to know, thank you. I've been outside of that world for a while.

Also HP had big test equipment business, then the HP went with computers and the measurement stuff was spun into Agilent.

Then the electronic measurement stuff was spun into Keysight and the Agilent was left with every other instrument stuff. So the soul of HP changed name twice

The HP also spun into HPE for servers/switches/storage and other datacenter stuff.

All to shed business units that are "just steadily making money" from ones that see bigger growth.

https://www.redbubble.com/i/skirt/Pantone-123C-by-palmea1/21...

That dress seems to be doing just fine

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