Not Even Polish Sausage Is Safe From Apple’s Ego

(7:23 pm PDT, Sep 13th 2012)

Not Even Polish Sausage Is Safe From Apple’s Ego

Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I was making this up, but unfortunately I’m not. Apple’s patent crusade has taken a new low. They’ve actually filed a lawsuit against an online Polish grocery site, claiming they are trying to confuse customers with their trademarked A.pl. The companies full name is A.PL CompanyInternet SA and the .pl is actually Poland’s country-wide domain. However, Apple believes this site-to-door grocery delivery site is simply trying to profit off of their almighty reputation.

To think customers would confuse groceries with computers and phones is absolutely asinine, but then again, so are these patent lawsuits. Even if this Polish grocery site were “deliberately trying to confuse customers,” I doubt someone’s going to visit their site looking for an iPhone and settle for shampoo instead.

Not Even Polish Sausage Is Safe From Apple’s EgoApple isn’t only going after them for their name, but also for a fresh24.pl logo they use which resembles, well… an apple. You hear that apple orchards of the world, beware, you may be diluted Apple’s products with your apple cider.

Seriously…

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  • Anonymous

    1. Where do the site owners get off putting this crap on the Mac side?
    2. Where do the site owners get off writing with this sort of slant?

    • http://twitter.com/sadirbabe Nobody Cares

      Complain in your own hole TallestSkil. You’re doing nothing productive but bitching around and spreading the gospel of Apple.

  • http://twitter.com/SaturnSix Keira

    Great journalism not knowing the difference between a patent and a trademark. All trademark owners are required to defend their trademarks or lose them. So, for example if another company registers AA.PL they could argue against a takedown because Apple didn’t challenge this site. I recommend doing some basic research in the future before writing articles that are clearly meant to inflammatory.

  • Mike

    Nobody cares -yawnnnnnnnn

  • David_Lazarus

    Apple should let this go. It is very clear that they are not trying to copy the logo of Apple. First there are the words FRESH through the apple and there is not trademarked bite out of the apple. This just makes them look like bullies. I seriously doubt that any customers are confused between the two companies. Even if someone actually found themselves on the Fresh24 website they would still have to negotiate the fact that the website will be in Polish, and unlikely to have an English translation.

  • whodakat

    Get this shit off of my Cult of Mac RSS. Great you hate iPhones, who the fuck cares?

    • Mitch

      Should I call waaambulance for you?

  • http://twitter.com/Eurofag Eurofag!qUytODkcyE

    1) get the fuck out of the Mac feed already
    2) how come the CoM side hardly ever cares about android while this part is full with “lel eppul” shitflinging? Friggin manchuldren.

    • http://twitter.com/sadirbabe Nobody Cares

      CoM is all about bashing Samsung. Look at any post and their comments will at least have one reference to “Samesung” or “Samsuck”. They will probably defend this too.

  • nolavabo

    Stop the Cult of Android posts from dribbling over into the Cult of Mac feed. Please. Or lose readers.

  • http://www.facebook.com/heikii.kawaguchi Heikii Kawaguchi

    Yes I was going to buy an iPhone here in Poland at that shop… sorry but the juice in apple is starting to run dry

  • http://www.facebook.com/xoleras Dimitris Theofilopoulos

    as long as there are fucktards that buy their garbage they will do whatever they want.
    I own nothing but apple products, from mac pros to mbps mbas etc, I ditched the iphone 4s for an s3, and little by little I trying to distance my self from them, they make me sick to my stomach.

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Vincent MessinaVincent Messina has been writing and evangelizing about Android for the past three years. When he's not playing the part of "Loki" to his 5 and 4-year-old, he can be found here, covering all things Android. He adamantly believes Android has the greatest community around and can be harassed at any of the following locations: Google+, Twitter.

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