Orignality in Logo Design

Mike Davidson wrote an excellent post about originality in logo design. The comments are equally excellent.

His wish:

The best way, theoretically, to protect against all of these situations is some sort of global database of trademarked identities which can be matched automatically with algorithms. I believe, but am not sure, that the USPTO may have something like this either set up or in the works, but if a system like this could be perfected, we’d all feel a lot safer with our creations. It would catch a lot of ripoffs during the trademarking stage, but it would also be a great tool with which designers could “check” their work before even submitting it to a client.

That would be nice.

Related to my logo rip-off post.

Hat tip: some guy's blog I can't read and Google can't translate, but he linked to me, and that's how I found his post.