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Apple Threatens Bistro Over "AppleADay" Name
itwbennett writes "In today's edition of David v. Goliath, Apple lawyers have sent cease and desist letters to a tiny health food restaurant in Luxembourg named AppleADay. For their part, the owners of AppleADay, with help from a lawerly friend, have promised that they would continue to sell only food, not computers. Of course, Apple knows as well as anyone that promises are made to be broken, having famously promised Apple Corps, the Beatles' production company, they would never get into the music business."
...to iAppleADay
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I mean, NOBODY is going to confuse them for the Apple Store. This is just petty.
Apple sues Mother Nature for making a fruit with the same name.
What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
Because if not, it should be.
First, this story is months old and dates back to late August. Second, contrary to the headline, they're not threatening over the "AppleADay" name but the logo.
Third, as is pointed out every time an incident like this occurs, trademark owners have to take no chances and must enforce perceived violations or risk losing their right to it. There is always the risk that a court somewhere in the world might cite the lack of action in some particular case. But, since it's a "David v. Goliath" article, as the summary put it, it's an excellent story to submit to Slashdot and rile up the natives.
When you register a trademark, you have to select which class(es) of service the goods or services your company sells should cover. This seems to imply to me that a trademark only covers those classes of service, so unless Apple Inc registered their trademark for selling actual fruit, I don't understand how this works under the law. Why even have classes of service if company's are going to claim trademark infringement willy nilly on any classes of service, even ones they don't offer?
Yes. Clearly, the optimal solution is to remove lawyers' hands at once.
When someone says, "Any fool can see
Not quite fair.
Apple became the IP trolls during the last few years of Steve running it. Probably coinciding with his realization that he really screwed up when he put his faith in non scientific medicine, and effectively sentenced himself to a slow disgraceful death.
He were incapable of blaming himself, so he had to take out his newfound level of hatred and self-loathing on everybody else.
Orignal story dates from the 5th of may (6 month old stories now Slashdot, really ?) There was a flurry of news reporting and no updates since then, not even on their Facebook page where the restaurant gleefully displayed its new found notoriety. So I'm guessing it turned out to be very much a non-story played up for advertising value.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Seeing the supposedly infringing logo, I understand:
It looks nothing like the Apple Computer logo, but IT LOOKS BETTER!
Apple wants it.
The submitter, who works for itworld, sent a link to slashdot with an itworld article that has no source material nor citations of where the story was sourced. The only actual journalism that anyone has done on this appears to come from:
http://www.wort.lu/wort/web/en/luxembourg/articles/2011/05/149560/index.php
This is the link that should have been posted. Seriously, it took me less than a minute to vet this.
There are 0x40000000 types of people: those who understand 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point, and those who don't.
Yes. Clearly, the optimal solution is to remove lawyers' hands at once.
Why remove the hands? Those are still useful. I suggest removing the lawyers, and keeping the hands.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
For Apple to even start this tells me that Apples own lawyers should look up trademark law.