Apple Officially Granted Registered Trademark For Beatles’s Apple Corps Logo

[onehandle]

For decades, Apple had a long-running dispute going with the Beatles over their eponymous fruitarian trademark. Namely, Apple Corps. congolomerate — a mult-armed multimedia corporation founded by the Beatles in 1968 — had a problem with Apple Computers stepping all over their TM. In 1981, Apple settled the dispute for the first time by paying Apple Corps. $80,000 and promising to never enter the music business, but then in 2001, Apple launched both the iPod and iTunes, starting the hostilities anew.

Everything came to a resolution in 2007, when Apple took ownership of all trademarks related to “Apple”, including Apple Corps’s granny smith apple logo, and agreed to license them back to Apple Corps. for their continued use.

Today, we’re seeing the last apple fall from that treet, as the Canadian IP Office has just disclosed that the Beatles’ iconic recording label is now Apple, Inc. registered trademark.

http://www.cultofmac.com/198055/apple-officially-granted-registered-trademark-for-beatless-apple-corps-logo

Commenting on the settlement in 2007, the late Steve Jobs stated that "We love the Beatles, and it has been painful being at odds with them over these trademarks. It feels great to resolve this in a positive manner, and in a way that should remove the potential of further disagreements in the future."

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2012/10/the-beatles-apple-corps-logo-is-now-a-registered-tm-of-apple.html

Being a big fan of The Beatles and Apple, I'm happy to see this resolution come to be.

[BeyondGeography]

1. Vinyl was kind of beautiful

Great pic.

[theKed]

2. Fuck Apple

That is all.

[GeorgeGist]

3. If you hold your tongue ...

And say 'apple' it still sounds like Asshole.

[HappyMe]

4. Holy crap, you're right!

Pretty soon I will have to get permission and pay Apple when I want to make an apple pie.

[enlightenment]

5. Horrible company.

Using their money to beat down smaller companies . . . kind of like Walmart.