The Beetles should pull their entire discography from the iTunes Store! This is so blatant.
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Apple and Prepear Negotiating a Settlement Over Disputed Pear Logo Trademark
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So, which of these three logos for my new company developing language software will be tolerated by Apple:
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Or a black square with a forward pointing slash above it? One round-shaped fruit with a stem trademarks all remaining round-shaped fruits with a stem? Food v tech industry — this is com-pearing apples and oranges ...
That’s a decision to be made by their trademark attorneys, and is really no concern of yours.
Couldn't the logical reason behind this be that Apple wants to get into the Prepear space? We have Apple Watch monitoring health and vitals, so I think the next step could be watching what we eat. I don't think it's purely about logos being similar. As mentioned by a previous poster, Apple has been down this road before when Apple Records took them on. Apple agreed to not enter the music industry, and look where we are now.
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Come on Apple...just leave them alone
There's far more important things to do in this age
There's far more important things to do in this age
Unfortunately, and generally at the expense of some good regular folk sometimes, crappy, abusive legal maneuvering and positioning exists - outside of what any normal human considers rational - such as this lawsuit- for the benefit of those that can burn cash, to allow the continuation of those operations that allow the entity to continue to burn cash, because the down to earth humans that work for that entity are too small individually to stop the continuation of the crappy abusiveness. And the people that bring the crappy abusiveness are modern warriors of the word that can ruin regular folk or regular companies with a placement of a few words and a few legal filings, especially when they have a trillion dollars burning behind them supporting their crappy abusive intent.
I'm also an Apple Fan Boy, always have been. Can't back Apple on this. It's kind of not even close. Different industry, different fruit, different color, different shaped leaf. Nobody is going to see a food service, see that green pear and think of Apple. It's a stretch. I'd rather see Apple use the money to fight this towards a 17" MacBook pro roll out. But that's just me...
Calling people dogs is a complement in america. Dogs are great. So cute and nice.
Actually, the hole in the leaf is an almost exact copy of the leaf on the Apple logo. Easy fix, just change the shape of the leaf a little, tilt it to the left and I think Apple will not contest their use. Probably most people wouldn't notice the change.
There are other, non-related logos that are similar in some ways to Apple's that they don't contest. Pear should just change their logo's shape.
Check out Apple Holidays (Apple is tilted, bite in the apple, leaf tilts to left), Apple Vactations (red apple, leaf tilts to left), Green Apple Travel & Tourism ( apple looks like a globe with two leaves to the left). Probably some others if you look around.
The argument is dull. They sue people who aren’t doing anything wrong to deter other people who might do something wrong 😑
This pear 🍐 doesn’t look anything like Apples logo.
If I owned that company I wouldn’t give Apple a penny. Not 1 cent. There’s no reason too. Their logo looks nothing like Apple’s.
I doubt any money is changing hands. Presumably the discussions involve the company changing their logo.
I see a freaking pear! Now I cant have fruit in any of my future businesses?
You can, but Apple will tell you how your logo should look like.