You are going at war with Poland, Sir.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_apple_pro...
Apple could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its Apple logo
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Re: Apple could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its Apple logo
#12Will Apple force a 111-year old fruit company to change its logo?
Journalists gonna journalist.
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#13How the heck does one copyright a whole-ass image of an apple, wtf?
Trademark, not copyright. The weird thing is the expectation that trademarking an apple could be done in a way that is broad enough to cover all apple-based logos across all industries. I'm not sure how accurate this portrayal is given that Apple does indeed not sell fruit and the logo in question is likely pre-existing and does not actually resemble anything Apple has likely tried to file. Trade dress or so-called "…
The "infringing party" has existed and used this logo since a good 50 years before Apple Inc was founded.
I kinda hope the Swiss Apple company turns this around and sues Apple for trademark infringement, since they can prove using it for longer, and according to Apples own argument, the fact that they're in completely different industries apparently doesn't matter.
Would be fun to see Tim Cook announce the new "Banana iPhone" as a result of this suit getting turned around
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#15Trademark protection should only apply where it prevents customer confusion. A consumer electronics company has no business in preventing anyone from using a similar logo for selling fruit .
Agreed 100%. The logos are not even vaguely similar, either! Besides, didn't we already go through this decades ago with Apple Records?
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Probably a case of "lawyers gonna lawyer," because US trademark law demands that one vigorously defend their trademark, lest they lose it.
SMH
Re: Apple could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its Apple logo
#16How the heck does one copyright a whole-ass image of an apple, wtf?
Trademark, not copyright. The weird thing is the expectation that trademarking an apple could be done in a way that is broad enough to cover all apple-based logos across all industries. I'm not sure how accurate this portrayal is given that Apple does indeed not sell fruit and the logo in question is likely pre-existing and does not actually resemble anything Apple has likely tried to file. Trade dress or so-called "…
> logo in question is likely pre-existing
If the logo exists longer than Apple does, isn't Apple the one commiting infringement?
Isn't this an open and shut case?
Re: Apple could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its Apple logo
#17How the heck does one copyright a whole-ass image of an apple, wtf?
One does not. If an image is created, it is copyrighted automatically. But copyright is not what this article is about. It’s about trademarks.
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#18I'm not sure if Switzerland is under the EUIPO but I suspect European courts (not limited to the EU) are usually not very sympathetic to foreign companies trying to claim trademark on traditional brands https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49254551
Once again, Swiss will raise their pikes to protect right to protect their own in court without any EUtside interference...
While money is wasted on proceedings.
Good case for a libel countersuit?
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#19Tim Cook won’t rest until the apple fruit gets renamed to “trademark infringement”
I wonder if line6 could rename the ipod to "BHA" (B. H. Apple)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pod_(amp_modeler)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan#Personal_life_and_b...
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#20What a silly waste of time