Apple sues small recipe app ‘Prepear’ over its corporate logo, company alleges 'bullying'

Apple is taking legal action against meal planner company for its recipe app ‘Prepear’ over its corporate logo, that Apple claims, resembles its own tremarked logo. In an Instagram post,  small business said that Apple raised objection to its “minimalistic fruit design”. Meanwhile, Apple, in tice of opposition filed at US Patent and Tremark Office mentioned that  Prepear’s its “right-angled leaf reily calls to mind Apple’s famous Apple Logo and creates a similar commercial impression.” 

In furr accusations, Apple claimed its Health app mostly has similar designs like  Prepear’s and consumers could mistake it for one of its products. Meanwhile,  meal-planning app Prepear uses Apple’s mobile App Store to make its product available to consumers. Health app “provides a central repository for health and fitness data one of categories highlighted on Apple’s Health app is Nutrition,” Apple wrote in tice. It furr said, “consumers reily associate Apple Marks with medicine, health, and general wellness”. Apple accused Prepear app, a product of Super Healthy Kids, a small food blog initiative by a dietitian named Natalie Monson, of causing “confusion, mistake or deception”. 

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Bullying small businesses

However, in an Instagram post, Monson lashed out at tech giant firm, saying, “We are defending ourselves against Apple t only to keep our logo but to send a mess to big tech companies that bullying small businesses has consequences.” She furr alleged that “ trillion-dollar Apple, has decided to oppose and go after our small business’ tremark saying our pear logo is too close to ir Apple logo and supposedly hurts ir brand? While rest of world is going out of ir way to help small businesses during this pandemic, Apple has chosen to go after our small business.”

Furr, brand’s petition organizer and Prepear co-founder Russell Monson wrote, “Apple has been opposing small businesses with fruit-related logos by starting expensive legal action even when those logos don’t look anything like Apple’s logo, or aren’t in same line of business as Apple at all.” 

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