Apple is expected to appeal against the logo of a pearl meal planner app, with the iPhone maker presumably objecting to a trading application for a fruit-based logo.
The founders of Super Healthy Kids, a site about meal planning for kids and families, have found themselves the target of a complaint from Apple about the logo it uses for a spin-off business, the food planning app beforehand. It is claimed that Apple creates objects for the use of the logo and a trial trading application, requiring that the logo be altered.
In an Instagram post and a Change.org petition filed by Prepear co-founder and COO Russell Monson, first reported by iPhone in Canada, Prepear is of the opinion that the legal action is unlawful.
“Apple has replaced small businesses with fruit-related logos by initiating costly legal action,” the petition begins, “even if those logos do not look different from Apple’s logo, or are not in the same business life as Apple at all.”
The post goes on to point out Apple’s fierce defense of its trade against “small business with fruit related logos”, with the logos altered or abandoned as “most small businesses can not afford the tens of thousands of dollars it would cost Apple to disputed. ”
Citing the small team of five people at Prepear and that legal action the company already “has many thousands of dollars”, and forced the dismissal of one employee, the company claims that it is a “very horrible experience to legally attack by one of the largest companies in the world. ”
Prepear feels a “moral obligation to take a stand against Apple’s aggressive legal action against small businesses and fight for the right to preserve our logo,” and intends to “send a message to large tech companies that has plagued small businesses” . ”
At the time of publication, the Change.org petition had reached more than 9,000 supporters, and quickly closed at 10,000.
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