Apple has filed a lawsuit to stop New York City’s non-profit ‘GreeNYC’ from using their logo. Seems as though apple believes the GreeNYC logo is just to close to the Apple logo… hence the problem.
This is humorous and ironic to me for so many reasons. If you look at the two logos, I don’t really see any similarities other than the fact that an apple is used in both logos. If you’re not allowed to have an apple in your logo, then Mr. Jobs (well ok, the Apple legal team) should start making a long list of companies to file suit against 
C’mon Apple.. take a breather here… They’re even a non-profit for … sakes.
What’s your take?
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Eliakim // 07/04/2008 at 8:37 am
My “take” is that you obviously have never had a company who had to defend any trademark items, or else you would know that to not defend on these issues is to lose the trademark and have it diluted (and its value diluted) through much confusion and much use (by others) in the marketplace.
Obviously, these days, anything with “Apple” in it — generates articles of all kinds, even the stupid and idiotic articles and their accompanying inane and vapid commentary.
John // 07/04/2008 at 7:19 pm
As was pointed out above, this is not some vendetta by Apple, corporations are required to defend their trademarks. This is not out of the ordinary.
Apart from that, there are several similarities, note the detached leaf and the rightward slanted stem. On another site I saw where someone had taken the NYC logo, mirrored it left for right and laid it over the Apple logo. It was a near perfect fit.
For an example of a company that uses apple in their name and logo and does not infringe look here:
http://www.applevacations.com/avok