{"id":1311,"date":"2009-10-07T08:49:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T12:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2009-10-07T08:49:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T12:49:02","slug":"maybe-theyre-using-these-cases-to-train-their-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/07\/maybe-theyre-using-these-cases-to-train-their-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe they&#8217;re using these cases to train their lawyers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is litigating against another company for claimed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/173106\/apple_has_no_monopoly_on_fruit_trademark.html?tk=nl_dnx_t_crawl\" target=\"_blank\">infringement on their logo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hey, Apple, Inc.: Every apple can&#8217;t be yours.<\/p>\n<p>The latest target of your intellectual property monopoly effort is Woolworths Ltd., apparently a shirttail sibling of the five-and-dime stores I remember as a kid, but which is no longer operating in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>It seems Apple, Inc., maker of iMacs, iPods, iPhones and, historically, Apple IIs and IIIs, thinks Woolworths&#8217; clever stylized logo, wedding its &#8220;W&#8221; initial into a green image of the fruit, infringes on Apple, Inc.&#8217;s trademark.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Comparing_Apple_Logos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Comparing_Apple_Logos.jpg\" alt=\"Comparing_Apple_Logos\" title=\"Comparing_Apple_Logos\" width=\"336\" height=\"187\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Comparing_Apple_Logos.jpg 336w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Comparing_Apple_Logos-150x83.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There may actually be some merit in this case (although not enough to overturn common sense, I would hope), in that Woolworths is planning on using the brand on electronic devices as well as its more traditional lines of products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is litigating against another company for claimed infringement on their logo: Hey, Apple, Inc.: Every apple can&#8217;t be yours. The latest target of your intellectual property monopoly effort is Woolworths Ltd., apparently a shirttail sibling of the five-and-dime stores I remember as a kid, but which is no longer operating in the U.S. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[160,324],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-trademarks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-l9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}