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Apple Takes Legal Action Against Small Company With Pear Logo
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Sorry, I don’t see one of the most profitable and powerful companies on the planet ever losing legal ownership of their trademarked logo.
Too similar? Are they blind? Might as sue all oval fruit logos with stem so cherry, pear, orange, longan, mandarin, tangerine, raspberry and tons more.
In that case, we should expect Applebee's app to be taken down soon.
Better sue all Apple farmers and cider makers too as they show pictures of apples and even use the word Apple to describe their product.
You clearly defended them in this case when you said “even if the logo isn’t close”. You literally stated that this is acceptable behavior. I’m not sure how you can say you didn’t.
The Apple fanboy in me cannot defend this one...This is one of the strangest Apple-related stories I've ever read. In the midst of Apple facing increasing heat for their App Store policies, they decide to sue a small company making a type of product Apple does not, for a logo that looks nothing like theirs...
Love these threads where all the armchair lawyers come out of the woodwork.
That is because they defend (right or wrong) it on a regular basis. I am not defending Apple in this case.
Please, they’re clearly both logos. If you can’t see the blatant infringement by one company creating a logo when another company already has a logo then you’re clearly mental. I mean imagine a world where someone started a restaurant and then another person started a completely different restaurant that served totally different food and wasn’t in any way similar: PANDEMONIUM!! People would simply not understand.
I can't tell if you're not getting the point or just being argumentative. Applebees is in a completely different industry. The app is basically a form of marketing for them.
Now, if they decided to start streaming movies and selling music through their app, they would be moving into a market that Apple is part of and could then be open to lawsuits for using a name and logo similar to Apple's own. That would present a legitimate case of one company attempting to dilute the brand and image of another company.
I don't understand. There are far more companies infringing the Apple trademark than this.
Next, we need to do something about this clear Apple logo knockoff:
Oh, Apple. You're comparing apples and oranges pears.
It's only applicable to companies in the same market. A technology company using name or logo similar to Apple's present the possibility of brand dilution or market confusion. I could open a photography studio called Apple and Apple (the computer company) could do nothing about it.
That said, I think Apple is in the wrong on this one. I don't see that the similarity is going to confuse any consumers.
Yeah, I’m confusing the grocery company with the tech giant.
“Oh, is that the new Pear phone”? Wow, cool. Can you log into the seed store and download a recipe for Mac OS and cheese?
No one likes a bully. What a bunch of jerks...
“Oh, is that the new Pear phone”? Wow, cool. Can you log into the seed store and download a recipe for Mac OS and cheese?
No one likes a bully. What a bunch of jerks...
List of generic and genericized trademarks - Wikipedia
Next, we need to do something about this clear Apple logo knockoff:
That just looks like an apple being dismembered with a butter knife to me...but I digress. Maybe their lawyers don't KNOW the difference between apples and pears.
Did Apple ever sue these companies? I can't remember them ever doing so, and a case can be made that their logos are too close in appearance to Apple's logo and can hurt their brand.
Kiwi Computer, Inc. (old defunct PC company from the '90s)
Apricot Computers (also defunct)
Raspberry (makers of Raspberry Pi)
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Is this really the logo that's in contention? When I first read the post, I figured Apple had some other similar pear-shaped logo used elsewhere in their ecosystem. I just don't see the resemblance. 🤷♂️
List of generic and genericized trademarks - Wikipedia
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Many on that list are still legally recognized trademarks e.g. the public commonly referring to all soda as Coke, all gelatin as Jell-0, all web searches as Google.
Agree. And I hate that. It’s going to cost prepear money that they probably don’t have because the law states Apple HAS to defend it. There’s gotta be a better way.