Determine changes to the peer logo to resolve the trademark dispute with Apple

Prepear, an app for planning recipes and meals, has agreed to change its peer logo to settle an ongoing trademark dispute with Apple, Prepear’s co-founder confirmed today iPhone in Canada. Apple opposed Prepear’s trademark application in August, claiming that the company’s pear-shaped logo looked too much like Apple’s own logo.

Although Prepear’s logo has a pear shape instead of an apple shape, it looks like Apple went to the right corner of Prepear’s leaf in the original logo. The new logo features a different leaf, a small change that Apple apparently feels makes it different from the familiar Apple logo. Prepear’s app icon has also been customized.

Following the initial trademark opposition, Super Healthy Kids, the parent company of Prepear, launched a petition in an attempt to persuade Apple to drop its opposition to a small business that tried to protect its logo, and the petition received more than 250,000 signatures. Apple has also been widely ridiculed by media sites and fans for going after Prepear’s logo.

Back in December, the applications to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s trademark hearing and appeal board called for the trial to be suspended for 30 days, as Prepear and Apple were “actively negotiating for the resolution” of the case.

Prepear’s CEO says that the brand problem has now been ‘kindly resolved’ and that Prepear is happy with the outcome.