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.

They tried years ago to copyright the use of the letter ‘i’ and failed.

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I think they tried to trademark it, like intel tried to trademark the number 86.

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They would’ve had to fight Toyota lol

That might have been it. It was a long time ago.

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me come from a dymensyon where they succeded. Yt ys really trecky to wryte nowadays, at least ef you’re not owner of an i©phone™.

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