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Originally Posted by Octane
Claude,
Apple has spent squillions of dollars across every country it trades in, to protect its corporate identity. In this case, by registering a mark of an apple with a bite taken out of it.
They are well within their right to protect what's theirs legally. I understand and appreciate that this topic can become heated because of the triviality of the mark in question: a humble silhouette of a bitten apple. But, that is no grounds to go and bag the company. I wonder if we'd be saying any different if it were anything other than an apple, or, fruit in general.
If, as people say, the two marks bear no resemblance to one another, then the contest will be thrown out. This is the job of the trademarks hearings and oppositions people, who are the only ones qualified to make and pass ths judgment.
Regards,
Humayun
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Hey Humayun how are you by the way.
Lets see. A computer company wakes up one morning and says I know from now on this image of an apple with a bite taken out of it belongs to me. And I’m supposed to accept that? No not me sorry. Not everything in this world is up for ownership. There are certain basic things of nature that we inherited when we were born and the simple image of an apple in all its manifestations is one of these things. And so if Apple chooses something as basic as an apple to symbolise its company (to sell computers for gods sake – what on earth is the connection) then it does so at the risk that someone might copy it.
To be frank I don’t care how much $$$ Apple has spent. Do you think Apple gives a damn about where the moral/legal rights lay. When they purloined the Apple image do you think they cared less that they might be infringing the rights of the beatles to their Apple image. The very law that they want us to respect they were more then happy to flout when it suited them. Honestly, we must be the only part of society that considers the rights and wrongs of things and will sacrifice our own interests if we think its “the right thing to do”. Do you see Apple sacrificing its interests because “it’s the right thing to do”. We are such mugs and our survival is not guaranteed esp if our automatic reaction is to see things from their perspective. Instead of worrying about how much Apple has spent what about our rights and the rights of our kids. Who did apple pay to own such a basic image and to restrict not only me but my children and my children’s children from using it.
As technology gets more powerful and invasive, as resources dwindle and laws get more and more restrictive and as everything is turned into something to buy and sell (including a simple image of an apple) we need to be worrying for ourselves and not the likes of Woolies or Apple. Don’t worry, they can take care of themselves believe me.