Technology giant Apple is reportedly negotiating a dispute over a controversial trademark associated with the small startup Prepear’s logo – a minimalist pear that, according to Apple, confuses consumers with its iconic minimalist Apple logo.
MacRumors reports that in August, Apple tried to work against a branding application by the makers of an app and a meal planning app, Prepear, which used a depiction of a pear as its logo. Apple has objected to the branding of the Pepear logo, claiming it was too similar to the company’s famous Apple logo.
Although the Prepear logo clearly depicts the outline of a pear, Apple claims that the logo ‘consists of a minimalist fruit design with a rectangular leaf, easily reminiscent of Apple’s famous Apple logo and a similar create a commercial impression. ‘
The company behind Prepear, Super Healthy Kids, has launched a petition to try to persuade Apple to drop its opposition, which according to Super Healthy Kids was a small business trying to protect a logo that does not look like Apple’s logo not. The petition received more than 250,000 signatures.
Although Apple did not reject its opposition, a solution to the dispute may come soon, as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s trademark hearing and appeal board last week requested that the trial be suspended for 30 days, as the ” parties are actively negotiating to resolve this issue. “
Any parties are free to resume the proceedings at any time, and the proceedings will resume automatically on 23 January if there are no further words from the two parties. If a settlement is not reached, the dispute may continue for some time with the disclosure of the pre-trial hearing which begins before the trial in March and the main trial orders begin in October. A request for an oral hearing would only come in December 2021.
Breitbart News recently reported that Apple sued security startup Corellium last year, accusing the company of violating copyright laws by giving researchers access to ‘virtual’ iPhones that could be used to find bugs in iOS products. A federal judge in Florida has filed Apple’s copyright claim.
The decision is a big win for Corellium. Apple also accuses the commencement of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) for allegedly circumventing the iPhone security measures to create the iPhone emulator. The complaint has yet to deal with this complaint.
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