Apple Files Lawsuit Against Prepear Over Fruit Logo

Prepear is a food and recipe-based startup which has a pear-shaped logo. On seeing this, the tech tycoon Apple has filed a lawsuit against Prepear stating that their logo looks similar to Apple’s iconic “Apple” logo.

It is noted that Apple has opposed five other small startups with fruit logos stating that they look similar to theirs even though the startups are based on various other sectors. To oppose this, Russell Monson, the founder of Prepear has filed a petition on social media platforms to get help from people to fight against Apple’s costly lawsuit.

He has written in the petition,” Apple has opposed the trademark application for our small business, Prepear, requiring that we change our pear-shaped logo, which is used to represent our brand in the recipe management and meal planning business. Before attacking us, Apple has opposed dozens of other trademark applications filed by small businesses with fruit-related logos. Many of those were changed or abandoned. Most small businesses can’t afford the tens of thousands of dollars it would take to fight Apple.”

He also said, “We are a very small company with only five team members, and the legal costs of our fight for the right of all small business owners to be able to develop their logo without fear have already cost us many thousands of dollars and the sad layoff one of the team members. We are defending ourselves against Apple not only to maintain our logo but to send the message to big tech companies that bullying small ones has consequences.”

Prepear is also gaining people’s support in this and people are leaving angry comments telling Apple to be supportive of such small business rather than bullying them.