The Apple vs. Samsung lawsuits are somewhat understandable. There’s a lot of money involved and the two companies compete directly in several areas. Apple suing a Polish online deli seems…not so cool. Yet that’s the case with Apple vs. A.pl. The king of Cupertino is upset with this small, online delivery service because of its name and an old logo it used. The name thing is kind of stupid. “.pl” is the top-level extension for Poland. No sane person is going to go to the A.pl site and confuse it with Apple Inc. The logo…I’m just not seeing the resemblance.
Some people think this is a case of Goliath attacking David. To me it looks like a big company acting like total dicks towards a small company that has no impact on its business whatsoever. What do you think? Is Apple right to be going after A.pl?
Source via PC Magazine
No not at all. People these days are far too quick to sue. Apple has been getting pretty bad about saying people are ripping off their stuff lately.
I think Debacle Studies should sue Apple for their use of Pano.
If that is the company’s URL then I don’t know how you can copyright the letter A.
This is blatant abuse of power. At least when Bethesda sued Mojang, the game titles looked somewhat similar. But a picture of an apple versus a big a with a tiny pl afterwords? What’s the big deal?