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I know it's popular to hate on big tech here on HN, but I'm willing to bet there's more going on here. There's literally dozens of companies with fruit logos on the Apple Store: pineapples, bananas, lemons, and many more.

Either this is a PR stunt or there's more at play.

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Nope this is actually very common when a trademark is filed that even hints at a large company's trademark.

Apple has been very busy fighting any fruit logos. [1]

[1] https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pnam=Apple%20Inc.%20%20

They objected to Appleton Area School District lol. Wonder if it's even an automated system.

Well I was contacted before my plaintiff filed an extension for opposition. I am sure there is automation that flags it to the lawyers as these kind of filings are published in a monthly gazette. I find it very unlikely that the opposition filing itself is automated.

You pay USPTO $400 or $500 for each opposition filing and you have to be available for calls as there is an entire process around opposition that is scheduled by the USPTO.

Probably none of those apps filed to register their trademark though.

Yeah haha multi-billion dollar companies are never involved in spurious lawsuits out of the blue.

Or fruits are just a really common things in the world...

The point was that Apple didn't go after the others

Don't forget the Banana Junior 6000 Self-Portable Personal Computer System!

(this is from Bloom County)

because they didn't apply for trademark. judging from this thread, apple seems to have a company monitoring fruit trademark applications all over the world (example cases in germany, poland)

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