Imitation isn't flattery. It's Stealing

Sorry, what? One is in the real estate market, the other is is a dictionary(!).

Both are meaning to denote the direction "up". If you put two mediocre designers in two isolated adjacent booths - they'd come up with the same thing.

This is not stealing. This is an unfortunate coincidence of the lowest common denominators crossing each others paths.

While these are indeed strikingly similar, I really doubt it's an actual rip, but rather someone arriving at the same visuals independently. It's one of those concepts that one can converge to naturally by repeatedly simplifying a house icon or a up pointing arrow. Same results, different concepts (in housing's case the arrow doubles as a roof), different domains.

I would seriously entertain a possibility of this being a pure coincidence, in which case it's rather unwise to burn bridges and call other guys thieves.

The author assumes that this was stealing. I doubt that, housing.com visual identity is very different:

different color scheme / different spelling LookUp vs. LOOK UP / different font /different relative positioning

Basically all they share is the "caret up" symbol and the words Look Up. Both are very common and hardly unique. It can happen that people independently get similar ideas.

We actually once designed a logo after we had redesigned an app. And the logo drew from the app design. We found out a few months later, that there was a hungarian company that had the same name, same concept for logo (which was typography only), very similar font and almost identical color scheme. It can happen. In our case you could blame us for not researching it, but similarities hardly mean stealing, especially if there are no really unique attributes...

edit: corrected syntax, formatting

It's trademark infringement, not stealing.

It's convergent evolution at work. Upsetting for you personally, but I don't think this is going to change how people view you or cannibalise any of your market.

It isn't either, and after decades of copyright indoctrination, I don't take people seriously who feel the need to use misleading language.

Also, this looks like one big coincidence.

So the author invented an "Up Arrow" with the word "Lookup" next to it ?

I think I might have stolen a lot of stuff lately if that's the case.

This is a thinly veiled advertisement for a dictionary. Maybe these guys should Chevron as well for using a chevron as their logo..

I'm sure this is all a big misunderstanding. As it clearly says on the LOOK UP (housing) website, the up arrow has a "unique character [that] gives the Look Up symbol distinction."

http://i.imgur.com/L4n6VLM.png

See? It's a totally original, distinctive logo.

Is that author saying that he can claim to own the pun "look up" with an up arrow?

I have a few business ideas for him.

IN->PUT

^UPLOAD

>COPYRIGHT

Such clever logos, wow