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.

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They tried to sue Australian grocery-duopolly Woolworths for their apple/ pumpkin type W logo

wollies applied for a blanket trademark - which would allow them to sell laptops with that logo on it, which would be kind of hilarious

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