After 14 months it seems as if the small family cafe in Bonn, Germany finally
can stick to their logo without having to fear the wrath of the computer
and smartphone primus Apple. In October 2011, the owner of the small café
in Bonn got a not-so-friendly letter from Apple’s attorneys at law.

Subject of the letter: The violation of Apple’s most-important trademark. The bitten-Apple logo.

While Apfelkind’s logo shows a complete apple with a kid’s head inside (which represents the name of the café as sujet) and obviously has little to nothing to do with Apple’s bitten apple logo, the computer designer from Cupertino seems to have felt threatened from the small family café and used some of it’s weapons to force Apfelkind to redesign their logo.

Afelkind however refused to do so as the redesign would have caused costs for the café in a height where the service would have been endangered. So the owner of the café took the hard way and stood against Apple’s concerns about their logo.

For now, Apple does not want to state any of their actions, neither about the contradiction at the European Patent Office in Munich nor to the confrontation with Apfelkind whose logo is far from similar to Apples logo.

Andreas Lubbenberger, trademark attorney frm berlin says that Apfelkind’s logo has nothing to do with Apple’s logo and the fact that the apple with the kid’s face on it is never standing alone from the “apfelkind” scriptlogo grants Apfelkind some better chances to win this “fight”.

For now the lawsuit fills a complete folder at Apfelkind and it stops her from evoluting the café further as sold toys and goodies should not wear Apfelkind’s logo, as the trademark attorney suggested.

So far it’s probably a good sign that Apfelkind may keep the logo and finally can bring out it’s goodies with the logo imprinted on them.

In case the logo war should end negatively for Apfelkind, the owner has already set up a plan B: The logo will then be redesigned as a cherry logo with the kids’ faces on them.

However I smell another trademark war coming up. Namely with Pacha club whose double cherry logo is renowned…