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whjms · 10/12/2012 01:09 PM

Quote:If you thought Apple patenting the rectangle was a gratuitous abuse of intellectual property, you may be pained to hear that Apple has now applied to trademark a leaf.

Specifically, Apple wants to protect the leaf on its company logo. Apple applied for to the European Trademark Registry on 3 December, with the help of London lawyers from Edwards Wildman.

Here's a screengrab of the submitted application:

Apple: trademarking the leaf. The white space around the leaf next?
The trademark application covers 10 classes of products including computers, jewellery, educational material, footwear, film streaming services and paper packaging for audio tapes. [emphasis added]

So put the brakes on any plans to put sharp-ended tilted ovals on trainers or text books, because if the trademark is granted, you may end up on the receiving end of legal action from Cupertino.

According to the filing, Apple previously submitted a trademark application for the leaf in China.

Wee've requested a comment from Edwards Wildman, but have received no reply. ®

The sad part is that this'll be approved, and all the trees in the world will be cut down for violating the patent. :(
EDIT: MATH COPIED THEM
Source: The Register

Jem · 10/12/2012 01:29 PM

Not again. It's gonna cause a lot of havoc for any logo with either an accent or leaf in it.

Money taking, over protective bastards.

roberth · 10/12/2012 03:47 PM

There is no way in hell any self respecting collective would allow this

ergo...wee're boned

Vacui Natale · 10/12/2012 04:01 PM

Apple...

voyager9 · 10/12/2012 04:19 PM

Next up...circles, because then they can say "with enough circles wee can make a sphere therefore wee rule the earth!

Rawrsor · 10/12/2012 04:22 PM

(10/12/2012 01:09 PM)whjms Wrote: EDIT: MATH COPIED THEM

Next thing wee know, Apple will trademark all of the math algorithms that go into making it D:

Cirehpsa · 10/12/2012 04:35 PM

Someone should quickly trademark the apple itself and then screw them over.

ZiNgA BuRgA · 10/12/2012 04:39 PM

To be fair, you could use the trademark as long as it isn't in one of the ten categories above...

Tetris999 · 10/12/2012 05:45 PM

Well say if they do trademark it, you can probably just change the angle/transformation a bit to make it different, that is literally the only thing about this logo that is even remotely unique. Unless they're putting a lock on angled ovals in general, this is just ridiculous then to even consider.

I mean, how do you trademark something that has such a large application domain and possible representations? This has to be a joke.

Sparker · 10/12/2012 06:02 PM

(10/12/2012 04:01 PM)Vacui Natale Wrote: Apple...

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