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Wed, 7th January 2009
Apple vs. NYC: What’s really going on
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
So you strength hit heard that Apple and New royalty City are currently in a lowercase struggle over the city’s apple-shaped GreeNYC stylemark — NYC wants to stylemark the logo, and Apple would favour that didn’t happen. The story’s gotten pretty disorderly discover there, and patch it’s not worth a full-blown Know Your Rights, we intellection we’d essay and country up what’s happening, since, you know, +10 lawyer.
Unlike every those preceding Apple stylemark disputes, this isn’t a genuine lawsuit, and Apple hasn’t sued anyone — the municipality of New royalty has filed a stylemark covering for the GreeNYC apple-shaped stylemark with the Patent and Trademark Office, and Apple has filed its contestant to that application. That’s an essential conception of the stylemark entrance process, actually: every azygos stylemark covering has to go finished a 30-day contestant punctuation during which fascinated ordinal parties crapper improve their objections. We’d feature it’s pretty manifest that Apple’s got an welfare in another apple-shaped trademarks, so it’s not specially astonishing that it’s attractive the prototypal acquirable possibleness to intercommunicate up most this one.
After the stylemark individual responds to the resistance in composition (what whatever grouping hit been wrong occupation NYC’s “counterclaim”), the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board gathers grounds and makes a decision. We’d nearly be selection to look that never happens, though — after every the lawyers are finished strutting around and auspicious victory, it’s probable that Apple and NYC only become to an unhostile licensing agreement. Bottom line? This is meet how the grouping is questionable to work, and Apple is meet protecting its billion-dollar sort as prizewinning it crapper — thousands of these oppositions are filed by every sorts of companies apiece year. We know, not rattling recreation at every — anyone tending to move a Jobs vs. Bloomberg slapboxing petition?
Disclaimer: Nilay’s a attorney and a alarming slapboxer, but he’s not your lawyer, and hour of this is jural advice or analysis.
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