{"id":1792,"date":"2011-10-27T00:35:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T22:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2011-10-27T00:35:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T22:35:49","slug":"apple-you-cant-be-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=1792","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8230; you can&#8217;t be serious!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-950\" title=\"Apple_logo_red\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Apple_logo_red1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Apple_logo_red1.png 200w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Apple_logo_red1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 64px) 100vw, 64px\" \/>Apple has done many lawsuits in the past. And one was about their logo where<br \/>\nit was hard for me to find similarities that may infringe with patents or copy-<br \/>\nrights of the Apple company in Cupertino (<a title=\"Apple vs. Fangguo Food\u2026\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=942\">read here<\/a>). This time I think, they&#8217;ve<br \/>\ngone too far! A small tea room owner got sued for her logo she has patented.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->But if you look closer to the logo, can you spot anything that may be &#8220;dangerous&#8221; for the IT specialist company many of us are currently worshipping?<\/p>\n<p>I say, NO! What has a tea room (also selling cakes and pastry) to do with computers and iPhones? NOTHING!<\/p>\n<p>Yet the attorneys at Apple&#8217;s law department seem to be really bored that they have to pick on a small shop located in Bonn, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>This is by far ridiculous and depending on my yesterday&#8217;s entry on how NOT to make good PR, it is good for Apple NOT to continue this rather ridiculous lawsuit against a small bakery&amp;tearoom in Bonn.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 640px;\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1793 aligncenter\" title=\"apfelkind\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/apfelkind.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"221\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1794\" title=\"apple_logo_red_wo_background\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/apple_logo_red_wo_background.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/apple_logo_red_wo_background.jpg 320w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/apple_logo_red_wo_background-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/apple_logo_red_wo_background-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">logo of the small bakery &amp; tearom in Bonn<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Actual Apple logo in red<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, Apple, you&#8217;ve done better and not even Microsoft is suing SwissWindows for their logo!<br \/>\nAnd these Logos look more similar than Apfelkind&#8217;s logo and Apple&#8217;s logo!<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1795\" title=\"swisswindows_logo_de\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/swisswindows_logo_de.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"120\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1796\" title=\"Windows_logo\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Windows_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Windows_logo.png 256w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Windows_logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Windows_logo-64x64.png 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 154px) 100vw, 154px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Swiss windows logo<\/td>\n<td>Microsoft Windows logo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>If Apple is really taking full action against apfel-kind.de for their logo, then Apple has lost all my respect!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has done many lawsuits in the past. And one was about their logo where it was hard for me to find similarities that may infringe with patents or copy- rights of the Apple company in Cupertino (read here). This time I think, they&#8217;ve gone too far! A small tea room owner got sued for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,4,342,434,19],"tags":[1003,385,600,634,388,1004,47],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-2","category-curiosities","category-economyfinance","category-nature-2","category-thoughts-2","tag-apfelkind","tag-apple","tag-lawsuit","tag-logo","tag-microsoft","tag-swisswindows","tag-windows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}