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Prepear Changes Pear Logo to Settle Trademark Dispute With Apple
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And Tim Cook smiles, then smiles again as Apple fanbois buy iPhones without chargers.
If the original logo looked like the new one — Aple still would have sued their ass. Bullying little companies is what is all about. Long historical precedent
Apple didn’t sue them in the first place. So why would they sue them if their logo looked like the new one?
Long historical precedent for uninformed forum posts around here.
If they lose, that opens the doors to other companies attempting infringement in all kinds of ways too. They cared which is probably why they settled rather than risk a loss in court.
I don't see the bite in it. Apple just made a small company trying to survive waste money in attorney fees. Ridiculous!
No, that’s not how it works. It was a trademark opposition. It doesn’t set any kind of precedent. It’s not a lawsuit.
I like the new logo. Nice what a small change can accomplish.
Thank god apple stood for what’s right. Now the world is a much better place.
IP protection is an industry and there are people paid a lot of money to do it. brand protection is important to businesses and if you have people hired to do it, they're going to do their job. this is the cost of doing business. corporate lawyers exist for a reason.
your opinion on this being a waste is pure irrelevance.
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Doesn't matter who notices other than the complainant which is Apple and they have the right to complain about it. Plain and simple. I don't think the original Pear logo was an accident anyway.
There is an apple logo on an app in the Google play store that I saw when I was seeing what comes up there when I search for Apple News. I think it belongs to a Hong Kong based company. It even has a bite taken out. The app is called Apple Daily. How did Apple's lawyers miss this? It even comes up as a result of searching for Apple News.
LMAO you're ridiculous. Pear knew exactly what they were doing to drum up business just like those Chinese Apple store knockoffs. Stop defending these silly little businesses just because Apple is a giant. These small companies have to follow laws like everyone else.
Macrumors logo also is an Apple. Doesn’t look anything like apple’s logo, and doesn’t look like a different logo in the same family as apple’s logo (it has a completely different aesthetic.)
If you were in charge of IP for a $2T company, wouldn’t you defend it like a mama bear protecting her cubs? Yes you would, or you wouldn’t have that job in the first place. They did exactly like they should have — protect the IP, no matter how small, no matter how seemingly harmless.
Old logo definitely looks better, but hard to explain why: the new leaf looks like a mouth that’s frowning or like the pear sprouted a letter “D” that is slightly too bold. What a shame to change it - the original was actually pretty good. I’d love to hear Apple’s full argument for opposing this...
Prepear, a recipe and meal-planning app, has agreed to change its pear logo to settle an ongoing trademark dispute with Apple, Prepear's co-founder today confirmed to iPhone in Canada. Apple in August opposed Prepear's trademark application, claiming that the company's pear-shaped logo was too similar to Apple's own logo.
Image via iPhone in Canada
Though Prepear's logo has a pear shape instead of an Apple shape, Apple seems to have taken offense to the right angle of Prepear's leaf in the original logo. The new logo features a leaf that's angled differently, a small change that Apple apparently feels makes it different enough from the famous Apple logo. Prepear's app icon has also been tweaked.
Following the initial trademark opposition, Super Healthy Kids, Prepear's parent company, launched a petition in an attempt to persuade Apple to drop its opposition targeting a small business that was trying to protect its logo, and that petition gained over 250,000 signatures. Apple was also widely derided by media sites and fans for going after Prepear's logo.
Back in December, filings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board requested that the trial proceedings be suspended for 30 days as Prepear and Apple were "actively engaged in negotiations for the settlement" of the matter.
Prepear's CEO says that the trademark issue has now been "amicably resolved" and that Prepear is happy with the outcome.
Article Link: Prepear Changes Pear Logo to Settle Trademark Dispute With Apple
Grow a pear.
