Apple wants to trademark an image of an apple in Switzerland, and this could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its logo.

Apple wants to claim depictions of actual apples.

  • EmiEnglish
    13•1 year ago

    Important not from that article:

    It’s not the first time we’ve seen big tech companies attempt to trademark common terms or goods. However, a study by the Tech Transparency Project found that Apple filed more trademark oppositions over a three-year period than Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook combined.

    If you think trademarking of common terms is a bad thing at all, apple seems to be the worst among big tech firms.

    P.S. this “Android Authority” article put apple in the correct light in my opinion after reading it, and I use a lot of Apple products.

    • BrooklynManEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      this whole argument is preposterous on its face to blame apple for anything when the problem is the laws which allow it. where’s the outrage for the swiss apple company with their trademarked apple logo? nowhere.

      you hate apple, and that’s the source of the outrage and why you blame them rather than the courts and legislatures for their crappy IP laws.

      • @bane_killgrind@lemmy.mlEnglish
        12•1 year ago

        By this logic, if there’s a law somewhere that unintentionally allows them to crush orphans, they aren’t malicious to do so.

        Apple and other corporations lobby for this kind of crappy IP law, so they can sue people.

        Apple expanded into this market recently and are pretending to be the incumbent apple themed brand in that space in the whole world.

        • BrooklynManEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          By this logic, if there’s a law somewhere that unintentionally allows them to crush orphans, they aren’t malicious to do so.

          That’s not logic, that’s a logical fallacy:

          False equivalence

          A false equivalence or false equivalency is an informal fallacy in which an equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed or false reasoning. This fallacy is categorized as a fallacy of inconsistency. Colloquially, a false equivalence is often called “comparing apples and oranges.”

          or in this case, comparing a copyright claim to mass child murder… also…

          Apple and other corporations lobby for this kind of crappy IP law, so they can sue people.

          prove that Apple lobbied the Swiss government for this law or for a favorable outcome. I’m pretty confident that you can’t, and that you’re making up this claim because you can’t make an argument without fabricating claims

          Apple expanded into this market recently…

          Apple products have been available for purchase in Switzerland for decades.

          …and are pretending to be the incumbent apple themed brand in that space in the whole world.

          i don’t think you know what the word “incumbent” means, but you not liking apple or the fact that they’re prolific or popular is not tantamount to a crime. it’s pretty entitled to claim that your personal opinion should have any bearing on the legality of another person’s or company’s actions.