Hopefully there is some email from Apple to Prepear where Apple says "Sorry guys, we gotta do this. Just send us the bill for your lawyer fees and we'll take care of those for you. Good luck on your app, Apple."
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Apple Takes Legal Action Against Small Company With Pear Logo
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Yes, and some on the list are not still legally recognized as trademarks, despite having belonged to what were, at the time, industry titans.
Disappointing to see such a powerful company engaging in frivolous lawsuits like this.
Young people would really be confused by these 2 brand logos? If so, the young ones need....bigger, more useful brains.
Or, preferably "Sorry, we've withdrawn our lawsuit because it's clearly a load of BS."
Anyway, Apple isn’t in danger of losing legal ownership their trademarked logo. And they didn’t need to sue this small company, or this tiny coffee shop to keep it.
you’d be surprised at how confusing it can be for 60-70 year olds to tell the difference
Agreed but under the financial weight of defending it they will probably end up just changing it and that sucks. There are times when Apple does things as a company that are stunningly tone deaf. Sometimes they just don't get it.
With unlimited resources to drag anyone through court they want, it's a well documented fact that Apple threatens court proceedings against others for whatever reason even if they know they'll likely lose. It matters zero if they lose, but the lawyers fees can bankrupt small companies - and that's what they're planning on.
Once again, revealing the true colors of what they're about
Once again, revealing the true colors of what they're about
Get your eyes and trademark law checked old man
Could you explain this further? What makes them have to sue this company over their wholly unrelated logo as opposed to any other? Are they required to sue any company with a piece of fruit in their logo, no matter how unmistakably different they are? Is MacRumors next? Or Banana Republic? Or Raspberry Pi? What about Applebee's? Why isn't Apple suing them too? Is it just that this company is easier to bully?
Well, if Apple is going to be consistent, then the MacRumors logo is at *least* as infringing as the PrePear mark. I don't see anything confusing about the contested mark. I think Apple, in this case, is being petty, and it definitely doesn't shine a favorable light on them at all. Sometimes (most of the time?) the lawyers need to be given a bit of direction, rather than giving them free reign to do as they please.
I'm 62 and it looks and is shaped like a pear. Are you by chance wearing glasses made by Apple where everything remotely close looks like an Apple? I will agree that Apple needs to protect its intellectual properties and logos included but they are way off base on this one and I hope the accused wins.
This is the whole point of why Apple is doing this. To keep your trademark you need to actively defend it. Even at times when defending it feels absurd, you have no choice but doing it. It's a requirement of trademark law. Also if Apple didn't, it would open up precedents to others who do want to infringe of Apple's trademarks.
[edit]Those disagreeing with this - why do you not like the facts?
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Even worse, you could call your restaurant McDowells and have golden arcs for your logo.
Best part about your post is I can picture you writing it with the facial expression of your avatar, ha.
To everyone stating that the logos are obviously different, and that there is no confusion, that is the point of the suit— to confirm that the court agrees with you. Apple can’t risk their brand by simply assuming the answer to the question.
The point of the suit has nothing to do with how Apple feels about the defendants, their business, or anything else.
And yes, they also want to discourage others from getting too close, because as one of the worlds most valuable and recognizable companies there are a lot of others who wouldn’t mind a little market confusion if they could get it and it’s expensive to fight each one. A few stories like this, while it‘s not a great look, probably serves as a warning to others not to tread too close.
The point of the suit has nothing to do with how Apple feels about the defendants, their business, or anything else.
And yes, they also want to discourage others from getting too close, because as one of the worlds most valuable and recognizable companies there are a lot of others who wouldn’t mind a little market confusion if they could get it and it’s expensive to fight each one. A few stories like this, while it‘s not a great look, probably serves as a warning to others not to tread too close.
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This is quite petty on Apple’s side; besides, who on Earth would confuse an apple and a pear? 😉 The positive bit is that this does give this pear-logoed business some good publicity. 👍
Just signed the petition. Apple is misbehaving here.
The logos not similar at all, even a almost blind person could tell the difference. Need to fire the lawyers that initiated this, bad publicity right now to hurt a meal planner and grocery list app developer.
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Did Apple run out of suppliers and developers to bully today? 🤨
I guess apple got so fed up with frivolous lawsuits against them, that the lawyers were like, ‘now it’s our turn’