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Are Apple serious?
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/biz-te … -ghxe.html
I think they are pushing things a bit…what do you think?
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Says at the bottom of the article that they oppose anything with an apple or similar in it Harry, sounds a bit paranoid to me and apple have such a good name they shouldn’t be worried about things like this.
Can’t believe that the designer didn’t have their logo in the back of his mind when he designed it though
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looks nothing like Apples logo. just an attempt to show their mighty image for a bit of media coverage. Next they’ll want to sue Adam for taking a bite out of one. 😕
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Maybe woolworths did it on purpose for some media coverage.
I had no idea they’d turned into an Australian fruit company.
I agree with Martin, someone must have pointed out that apple had an apple as their logo as well.
Liam
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bad apple!
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are we really bovvered ?
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I think its a public flex of muscle, publicity gained etc…
Apple do not own the rights to THE Apple fruit yet model their brand around it. I cannot see how they can enforce that nobody can even imply the shape of an apple/fruit with their business artwork, especially when the company name has no connection what so ever?
The following is a series of some of my brothers work which has been on show in some of the biggest art galleries in the world for the past 5 years or more. TV, Magazines, newspapers have all covered the shows…
The Carrots peice, dripping with Orange paint was featured in TV adverts by Sony records… and so on… im sure you get the picture…A recent advertising campaign by Apple shows a very Similar I-POD advert/picture… I am sure its just a similarity and the guy was not inspired by the idea, or was he? i also think same could be argued for The woolworth logo surely? I doubt any reputable company/brand WANT to pass off as another company regardless, ide have thought that was the whole point in having your own brand/face to your company. not to spend millions on a logo that makes you think about another company???
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Considering the Beatles owned Apple corps took Apple Inc to court and won they are sailing pretty close to the wind.
Apple corps didn’t like a another company (quite rightly in my mind) called Apple and arguing they couldn’t use the name. Apple Inc argued they were not in the music business and so there was no possible confusion but settled regardless in Apple corps favor. It was a condition that they never went into the music business!!!
They still argue to Apple Corps they are not involved in the music industry!!! They really shouldn’t be throwing stones at Woolworths in such a small glass house.
This is one of the reasons why you dont get Beatles music in itunes!
Nigel
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Heres the whole story just found it on wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corp … e_Computer
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One thing you guys are forgetting is trade mark law.
Apple aren’t happy that Wollies want to trade mark their logo as a blanket trademark. Basically across every sector.
For now you assume that Wollies will only sell food. If that’s the case then they should only register the trademark within that industry and Apple can’t do a thing.
Now if Wollies wanted to start selling Wollies branded computers with that logo might people get confused?
That’s the heart of the matter.
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Why do all these companies want the name apple?
It’s because the apple represents the apple from the garden of Eden, or the devil, the sign of temptation that nobody can resist.
Most of thee companies are masonic devil worshiping clandestine organizations who are obsessed with satanic imagery in their logos.
That’s also why Chris Martin called his kid Apple.
Or maybe i have been reading too much of David Ickes website.
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quote Jason Xuereb:One thing you guys are forgetting is trade mark law.
Apple aren’t happy that Wollies want to trade mark their logo as a blanket trademark. Basically across every sector.
For now you assume that Wollies will only sell food. If that’s the case then they should only register the trademark within that industry and Apple can’t do a thing.
Now if Wollies wanted to start selling Wollies branded computers with that logo might people get confused?
That’s the heart of the matter.
i do know what you mean jason and understand the concept of trademark protection etc but lets face it, the logo is not similar, nor is the company name or products. i guess if they want to fight out their point based on a "what if" then so be it.
Apple may have the trademark based on their actual logo, but i dont see them having the trademark on the word apple. so it really does revert back to the logo. thats unless they have some angle on it only being connected with computers, but that being the case, same applies for woolworths when they apply for trademark. so i dont see the dispute other than for free media coverage. -
We have been watching the woolies ads for quite some time and not once did Apple Computers leap in to my or my families minds. Some times these companies give me the S*its it appears in their tiny minds I just can’t think for myself and would immediately get confused by the smallest detail. MacDonald’s fast food took a small local rugby team to court because they had mac something on their behinds the team were sponsored by a lawyer called MacBrite. He won because he could trace his ancestry back several hundred years in Scotland, seems Maccas’ couldn’t do the same.
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I would have thought Pepsi could have been done for passing off as coca-cola here, obviously they arent trying to be coke, but in their own way spell out they are better than coke by using their font type in the big sign. but even that is treading close to the line seeing as its pepsis biggest competitor and both companies sell the same product, even if Coke is much better! 😉
oh and the videos about coke, the posts about the big sign, not ms spears. :lol1:
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So did you come across that after trawling through Youtube looking for examples of "passing off" or were you actually trawling though youtube looking at Britney videos :lol1:
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the masses drink coke and pepsi
I prefer tomato juice, they cant f*ck with that, or can they?
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quote Peter Normington:I prefer tomato juice, they cant f*ck with that, or can they?
Tomato Juice, well maybe Dot Cotton can with Jim Branning…
but yes your right, I have heard many can and do f**k with Coke.😕 😳
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Many many years ago my father was a member of a consortium who invented and invested in one of the 1st blood test for breast cancer. It was headed by a brilliant Dr who wrote the program called Celisa on an Apple II.
They were doing a demonstration for a hospital, that if successful, would have amounted to huge sales in computers and software.
Because the AII was a single drive, they asked apple to copy a second disc to leave as a demo copy to the hospital. There was a lot riding on it.
When the good Dr rang Apple for their assistance, they didn’t give a toss. They didn’t return his calls and they made it as difficult as possible for the consortium to do the deal.
Now, 30 years on, just about every specialist in the world uses a version of the software on Macs. Not before Apple took the consortium out of the picture and held the Dr to ransom over royalties.
I have hated Apple ever since. They are bullys. Once a bully always a bully.
No doubt the Dr is doing well, but I think Apple had everything weighted in their favour, and the original investors got zip at the end of the day.
More power to Woolies I say.
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