Prepear, a recipe and meal planning app, has agreed to change its pear logo to resolve an ongoing trademark dispute with Apple, Prepear co-founder confirmed today for iPhone in Canada. Apple in August opposed the Prepear trademark application, claiming that the pear-shaped company logo was too similar to its own Apple logo.
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Although the Prepear logo has a pear shape instead of an Apple shape, Apple seems to have been offended at the right angle of Prepear’s leaf in the original logo. The new logo features a leaf that is tilted differently, a small change that Apple seems to make quite different from the famous Apple logo. The Prepear icon has also been changed.
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Following initial trademark opposition, Super Healthy Kids, Prepear’s parent company, launched a petition in an attempt to persuade Apple to drop its opposition to a small business trying to protect its logo, and that petition won over 250,000 signatures. Apple was also ridiculed by media sites and fans for following the Prepear logo.
In December, filings with the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Review and Appeals Committee requested that the trial be suspended for 30 days, as Prepear and Apple were “actively engaged in negotiations to resolve” the issue.
CEO Prepear says the trademark issue has been “settled amicably” and that Prepear is pleased with the result.