Wapple Wins Trademark Battle Over Apple
22/02/2012 |
While Apple is busy fighting Proview over the iPad trademark in China, it has lost a separate trademark battle in Europe: Wapple, the mobile web developers, have won a suit filed by Apple over its name.
The suit, originally filed in 2007, claimed that Wapple was trading on Apple's brand association and name, although Wapple had filed for a trademark on “Wapple” in 2006.
Wapple, which has been around since 2003, and incorporated in 2004 - well before the smartphone explosion - has long...
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