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That's different. Apple as a trademark for a computer (or for a record company) is fine. Apple as a trademark for apples... not so.
by p-e-w 3y ago
That's different. Apple as a trademark for a computer (or for a record company) is fine. Apple as a trademark for apples... not so.
- throwbadubadu 3y agoJust that the "difference" stops when they now sue any grocery related company having anything like an apple in their logos..
- p-e-w 3y agoAnyone can sue anyone else over anything. If those grocery companies actually fought them in court instead of caving in, Apple would get their ass handed to them.
- lesuorac 3y agoI welcome you to try sueing your neighbor for murdering you. Courts do not accept all lawsuits.
- PhasmaFelis 3y agoNot a great example. After being found innocent in criminal court of murdering his wife, OJ Simpson was famously sued by her family and lost in civil court.
- jcynix 3y agoApple did complain about this logo too, for a bicycle route through Germany's second largest apple growing region: https://apfelroute.nrw/ https://apfelroute.nrw/
- pmarreck 3y agoI used to be mad about this sort of thing too, until I learned that things are incentivized in such a way that encourages companies to at least make a nominal defense of their trademarks in order to maintain an edge in court for actual less-defensible violations of the trademark