Can you tell the difference between an apple and a pair? Apple does not think so, at least not how the couple looks on a company logo used by Prepear. The latter is an app that is used for preparing food and making shopping lists and can be found in the App Store and from the Google Play Store. Prepear was spun-off from Super Healthy Kids, a website that helps parents make healthy meals for kids.
Apple sues small food company over its pearl logo
A recent post on Super Healthy Kids / Prepear Instagram’s account by founder Natalie Monson (via iPhone in Canada) says: “The trillion dollar Apple, has decided to go against and go to the trademark of our small business that said our pear logo is too close to its Apple logo and assumes that they are harming their brand.” The big problem for Prepear is that Apple’s fight in court will cost the small business a ton of money. On the Instagram page of Super Healthy Kids, the founder of the company states, “This is a big hit for us at Prepear. To combat this will cost tens of thousands of dollars. The CRAZY thing is that Apple is doing this. has joined dozens of other small business fruit companies, and many have opted to leave their logo behind closed doors, while the rest of the world goes out of its way to help small businesses during this pandemic, Apple has chosen to go to our small business.
I’m not trying to get anyone to stop using or buying Apple products. I feel a moral obligation to stand up to Apple’s aggressive legal action against small businesses and fight for the right to keep our logo. We are defending ourselves against Apple not only to keep our logo, but to send a message to big tech companies that mobile companies are affected. “
Prepear can be installed from the App Store or Google Play Store
That Prepear has filed a petition on the site Change.org. Posted by Russell Monson, the co-founder and COO of Super Healthy Kids / Prepear, the petition reveals that the company already had to lay off one employee because of what it calls Apple’s “terrible lawsuit.” Prepear is at least a small company with only five team members and notes that “It’s a very horrible experience to be legally attacked by one of the largest companies in the world, even if we clearly did nothing wrong, and we understand why most companies simply give up and change their logos.We feel a moral obligation to stand up to Apple’s aggressive legal action against small businesses and fight for the right to keep our logo.We are not only defending ourselves against Apple to keep our logo, but to send a message to big tech companies that bullying has small business consequences. “
To date, nearly 34,000 people have signed the petition with a goal of 35,000. you can sign the petition by clicking on this link. The reasons given by those who signed the petition include, “It does not look like an apple. Apple Inc. You do not have the fruit images of the world. Be leaders, do not bump please.” Another person who signed the petition stated: “I should be legally blind, and have severe brain damage before I could confuse the two logos. Apple is (sic) too much with this one.” The majority of the people who commented on the petition say that the two logos do not look alike and one would have to have some sort of brain problem to confuse them. One other comment on the Change.org site says, “This is ridiculous! As a consumer, I would not think twice about that couple that looks like Apple’s logo! They do not look at each other! This is crazy! This small business should allow to keep her (sic) pear logo !!! If she can not keep it, this will be another sad thing lost until 2020! Please keep her logo and her company!
Can you tell the difference between an apple and a pair, or do you believe that Apple has a valid argument?
