Apple will let Super Healthy Kids have a pear (shaped logo) after all

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The original Prepear logo, compared to Apple’s.
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Last August, the routine story of a trademark opposition captured the world’s imagination, when Apple declared that Super Healthy Kids (yes, that’s the real name of a company) shouldn’t be allowed to trademark its pear logo because it might “cause dilution of the distinctiveness” of Apple’s own famous fruit-shaped intellectual property.

Six months later, the case is now settled, and it seems Apple didn’t actually have a pear-shaped problem after all — because Super Healthy Kids has agreed to change the shape of the leaf atop that pear, and Apple has agreed that’s good enough to let the trademark go forward.

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Prepear’s new logo has a half-moon shaped leaf, instead of the pointed oval.

Apple has already…

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