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Tuesday February 9, 2021 2:51 pm PST by Prepear, a recipe and meal-planning app, has agreed to change its pear logo to settle an ongoing trademark dispute with Apple, Prepear's co-founder today confirmed to . Apple in August , claiming that the company's pear-shaped logo was too similar to Apple's own logo.Image via in CanadaThough Prepear's logo has a pear shape instead of an Apple shape, Apple seems to have taken offense to the right angle of Prepear's leaf in the original logo. The new logo features a leaf that's angled differently, a small change that Apple apparently feels makes it different enough from the famous Apple logo. Prepear's app icon has also been tweaked.Following the initial trademark opposition, Super Healthy Kids, Prepear's parent company, in an attempt to persuade Apple to drop its opposition targeting a small business that was trying to protect its logo, and that petition gained over 250,000 signatures. Apple was also widely derided by media sites and fans for going after Prepear's logo.Back in December, filings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board requested that the trial proceedings be suspended for 30 days as Prepear and Apple were "actively engaged in negotiations for the settlement" of the matter.Prepear's CEO says that the trademark issue has now been "amicably resolved" and that Prepear is happy with the outcome.[ ]You got to be ****ing kidding me. All the wasted legal fees (on both sides) just for this? Only people that won here are the attorneys.Score: 97 Votes ( | )whenever I see a picture of a pear, I immediately think, "gee thats a great looking apple.... "Score: 33 Votes ( | )That leaf really made the differenceScore: 30 Votes ( | )It's a sad, sad day.Score: 29 Votes ( | )Oh man, just after I ordered my Pear Watch and signed up for a year of Pear TV+Score: 28 Votes ( | )I was on this company's side, but after looking at the new logo, I can see how the old one does look too similar to the Apple logo.Score: 14 Votes ( | )Thursday March 24, 2022 3:32 pm PDT by Apple's legal battle with Epic Games is continuing on, and today, the Cupertino company filed an opening brief with the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Both Apple and Epic Games opted to appeal the original ruling in the Epic Games v. Apple case as neither company was satisfied with the outcome. 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Tuesday February 9, 2021 2:51 pm PST by Prepear, a recipe and meal-planning app, has agreed to change its pear logo to settle an ongoing trademark dispute with Apple, Prepear's co-founder today confirmed to . Apple in August , claiming that the company's pear-shaped logo was too similar to Apple's own logo.Image via in CanadaThough Prepear's logo has a pear shape instead of an Apple shape, Apple seems to have taken offense to the right angle of Prepear's leaf in the original logo. The new logo features a leaf that's angled differently, a small change that Apple apparently feels makes it...

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