Two apples that probably look nothing alike, but still remain two apples. So it happens that a small café in Bonn, Germany, finds itself legally confronted by Apple over issues of trademarks, branding, and visibility. But it also happens that the small provincial coffee shop wins its battle against the big tech giant, the one with the most influential brand in the world.
The subject of the dispute, which began two years earlier, was the German coffee shop's logo, a red apple, which "could mislead customers" as Apple put it. The legal battle went on for months until Christin Römer, owner of the Bonn coffee shop, and the Cupertino company reached an amicable settlement. The agreement, which includes no penalty, commits the German coffee shop not to deal with smartphones or computers in the near future.
This is not the first case for which Apple is taking legal action over trademark, patent and other issues, but surely at the end of this whole story the only one to gain was the small German coffee shop itself, which made headlines for a war that really seemed to be bigger than it was and instead...
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