Apple objects to app's pear logo trademark application
Apple has reportedly objected to a meal planner app's logo of a pear, with the iPhone maker allegedly objecting to a trademark application for a fruit-based logo.
The founders of Super Healthy Kids, a site about meal planning for children and families, have found themselves the target of a complaint from Apple over the logo it is using for a spin-off company, the meal-planning app Prepear. It is claimed Apple objects to the use of the logo and an attempted trademark application, demanding for the logo to be changed.
In an Instagram post and a Change.org petition set up by Prepear co-founder and COO Russell Monson, first reported by iPhone in Canada, Prepear believes the legal action is unwarranted.
"Apple has been opposing small businesses with fruit-related logos by starting expensive legal action," starts the petition, "even when those logos don't look anything like Apple's logo, or aren't in the same line of business as Apple at all."
The post goes on to point out Apple's vigorous defense of its trademark against "small businesses with fruit related logos," with the logos either changed or abandoned as "most small businesses cannot afford the tens of thousands of dollars it would cost to fight Apple."
Citing the small five-person team at Prepear and that legal action has already cost the company "many thousands of dollars," forcing the layoff of one employee, the company claims it is a "very terrifying experience to be legally attacked by one of the largest companies in the world."
Prepear feels a "moral obligation to take a stand against Apple's aggressive legal action against small businesses and fight for the right to keep our logo," and intends to "send a message to big tech companies that bullying small businesses has consequences."
At the time of publication, the Change.org petition has reached over 9,000 supporters, and is quickly closing in on 10,000.
The founders of Super Healthy Kids, a site about meal planning for children and families, have found themselves the target of a complaint from Apple over the logo it is using for a spin-off company, the meal-planning app Prepear. It is claimed Apple objects to the use of the logo and an attempted trademark application, demanding for the logo to be changed.
In an Instagram post and a Change.org petition set up by Prepear co-founder and COO Russell Monson, first reported by iPhone in Canada, Prepear believes the legal action is unwarranted.
"Apple has been opposing small businesses with fruit-related logos by starting expensive legal action," starts the petition, "even when those logos don't look anything like Apple's logo, or aren't in the same line of business as Apple at all."
The post goes on to point out Apple's vigorous defense of its trademark against "small businesses with fruit related logos," with the logos either changed or abandoned as "most small businesses cannot afford the tens of thousands of dollars it would cost to fight Apple."
Citing the small five-person team at Prepear and that legal action has already cost the company "many thousands of dollars," forcing the layoff of one employee, the company claims it is a "very terrifying experience to be legally attacked by one of the largest companies in the world."
Prepear feels a "moral obligation to take a stand against Apple's aggressive legal action against small businesses and fight for the right to keep our logo," and intends to "send a message to big tech companies that bullying small businesses has consequences."
At the time of publication, the Change.org petition has reached over 9,000 supporters, and is quickly closing in on 10,000.
Comments
Almost as good as the Samsung and Huawei stores!
And no, I’m not (just) a fanboy, but a future PhD in design, and even an undergrad with a keen eye would spot the similarities right away… This isn’t much different from spotting plagiarism in typography, you just have to overlay the curves and see how well they match. Do you want me to?
The problem is there is too much money at stake in Trademark and Patent law to achieve any kind of reasonable reform in Congress, not to mention attempts to make international law in this area.
I am glad my CSC 269 Professor gave me a C- three times in a req'd "C" grade class, making me drop out of college WOW. Whew...
I always knew college was a joke for computers and computer science. They are always at LEAST 10 years behind...more like 30 in this case!
If you need "all of this" explained to you, you obviously wouldn't understand.
I’m guessing that Tim was out of the office when this decision was made.
I have a PhD in zoology and can tell you this resembles an aborted Panda bear rather than an Apple logo of any imaginable kind.
No.
How the hell does Samsung get away with blatantly biting Apple?
Knockoff Apple Store with Apple App icons
Samsungs iKnockoff default apps
*Google it, you lazy bum.