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Apple, New York City In Legal Dispute Over Logo
Lemmy Caution writes "Apple, Inc. has filed a suit to prevent New York City's non-profit 'GreeNYC' initiative from using a logo that incorporates an apple in its design. Commentators have noted the substantial differences between the two designs, not to mention the irony of this sort of infringement claim. The city of New York has filed to have the claim rejected, and even possibly the cancellation of Apple's logo in light of the long history of the nickname 'The Big Apple' to describe the city."
Apple and the Apple Corps were arguing over whether Apple could sell any PCs that had music capabilities, which was hardly an infringement of the music label's business, since it didn't sell any computer hardware or music gear.
Apple is acting here to stop a logo of an abstract apple outline logo that does look fleetingly similar. It's protecting a trademark logo. If it did not, it could eventually lose its rights to stop others from using the Apple name and logo in clearly infringing icons and brand names.
Your righteous indignation here is not a reaction to the event, but an opportunity you're taking to link up a company working to protect its trademarks with a company that has exercised its 20 year monopoly to cheat customers, delay the state of the art in technology, destroy competitors and prevent competing products from reaching the market, and flout the court's consent decrees it agreed to obey. There is no relation of any kind. Microsoft is criminal, Apple's lawyers are mildly irritating.