17-11-2016
Exercise bike manufacturer Peloton has filed a petition to cancel a rival’s trademark of “Spinning”, claiming it is abusively enforcing the mark.
Peloton claimed that rival fitness company Mad Dogg Athletics is “abusively enforcing” its trademark rights of ‘Spinning’ and ‘Spin’ across the indoor biking industry in a petition filed to the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (USPTO) yesterday.
The petition argued that the terms are generic and that Mad Dogg’s lawyers have been ceaseless in their campaign to chase down infringers. It also cites John Baudhuin, co-founder of Mad Dogg, admitting to spending “hundreds of thousands of dollars a year” on litigation.
Apple Considers Ending Trademark War Against Tiny Startup with Pear Logo
2 Jan 2021
Tech giant Apple is reportedly negotiating a settlement over a disputed trademark relating to tiny startup Prepear’s logo a minimalist pear that Apple claims consumers confuse with its iconic minimalist Apple logo.
MacRumors reports that in August Apple attempted to oppose a trademark application by the creators of a recipe and meal-planning app called Prepear, which used a depiction of a pear fruit as its logo. Apple objected to the Pepear logo trademark claiming that it was too similar to the company’s famous apple logo.
Although the Prepear logo clearly depicts an outline of a pear, Apple claimed that the logo “consists of a minimalistic fruit design with a right-angled leaf, which readily calls to mind Apple’s famous Apple Logo and creates a similar commercial impression.”
Would you confuse an apple and a pear? on December 31, 2020, 8:14 19 comments
In a nutshell: The logo dispute between Apple and meal-planning app Prepear could soon come to an end after a 30-day pause in court proceedings was requested so the companies can reach a settlement.
In August, Apple, a company with a market cap of $2.27 trillion, launched a trademark lawsuit against tiny app developer and fitness startup Super Healthy Kids over claims the logo used in its Perpear recipe app is based on Apple s.
Resemblance between the two logos are tenuous at best, other than they re both pieces of (different) fruit. Apple claims that Prepear s icon consists of a minimalistic fruit design with a right-angled leaf, which readily calls to mind Apple s famous Apple Logo and creates a similar commercial impression. The latter point being pretty arguable; it would take longer to point out the differences than the similarities between the two images.