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'Bullying' Apple fights couple over pear logo
When Natalie Monson started her food blog 11 years ago, she didn't expect to end up embroiled in a fight with the world's most valuable company.
But the US small business owner is now battling Apple for the right to use a pear in the logo on her recipe app.
In a patent filing, Apple said the image was too similar to its own logo and would hurt its brand.
Ms Monson says the tech giant is simply "bullying" and she feels a "moral obligation" to fight back.
More than 43,000 people have already signed the petition she and her husband Russ, owners of the Super Healthy Kids website, created last week to try to pressure the company to back down.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2020, @03:05AM (1 child)
They are required to defend their trademark, but the site has been in operation for over a decade. They didn't in all that time notice it? That alone ought to be sufficient to get them off the hook as Apple seems to have taken its sweet time sending the paperwork in. Really, Apple is just a bully and a monopolist and it's far past time that they were crushed for their antics.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday August 13 2020, @04:40AM
You're seeing them as too monolithic. I would strongly guess that Apple management wasn't even aware of this letter until after people started making noises about it.
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