Apple owns all trademarks related to fruits?
Apple is now suing a five-person startup over the design of their logo, something that has sparked quite a controversy and reignited the debate regarding the power that major tech conglomerates hold on today’s ever-connected digital world.
Despite Apple Inc having no substantial claim, they’ve still gone ahead with filing a “notice of opposition” filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office against Prepear’s trademark application (the initial application was filed in 2017). It should be noted that the Prepear (a cooking app company) logo is a pear, while that of Apple Inc is an apple, both bring different fruits (something which a toddler could point out). Additionally, the claim that all logos containing a fruit with a leaf pointing on the right side being Apple’s intellectual property is clearly false.
So the question is, what’s Apple’s endgame? The answer is simple, their entire strategy is to eliminate Prepear via the expensive legal fee that this small startup has to pay to stand up to the unjustified bullying brought forward by Apple Inc, a company which claims to pride itself for freedom and creativity.
