Apple logo trademark

Apple has against the trademark appraisal committee under China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce, after the committee rejected Apple's request approve its trademark application for clothing last June, according to the CHINAdaily. Apple, who successfully filed a trademark application in the field of computers last May, says that "Zengcheng-based Guangdong Apples is a company that makes alleged illegal profits while continuously attempting to infringe on the US company's trademark...Guangdong Apples' trademark of an apple logo, which does not have the same bite as on Apple's, was authorized by the trademark bureau under the State Administration for Industry and Commerce in 1998, according to sources."

by MacNN Staff