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Although iBeacon is an Apple trademark, the technology behind it is an open standard.
The company did not elaborate on the penalties it was seeking, but said the computer maker violated a 1991 agreement specifying that it could use the Apple trademark for computer products only.
It took years of negotiations, a lawsuit with the Beatles' own Apple Corps over the Apple trademark, and agreements with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, the widows of John Lennon and George Harrison, and EMI, which controls the right to release Beatles recordings.
Since then numerous manufacturers (from big dogs like LG and Samsung to independents like Pebble and Cookoo) have jumped into the arena, and Apple has responded with a hiring spree (nabbing fashion-focused executives such as former Yves Saint Laurent CEO Paul Deneve) and securing the ground patent-wise (eg extending the Apple trademark to cover "jewellery, clocks and watches").
Apple and the guardian of The Beatles' music resolved a long-running dispute Monday over who owns the right to the Apple trademark.
The bar clearly wasn't using an Apple trademark in any diabolical scheme for profit.
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More evidence: Apple trademarked the name in 2006.
The areas that each company could operate in, with their respective apple trademarks, had been clarified, and Cupertino, CA-based company was now in violation.
But has Apple really trademarked the word 'pad?'pad
Apple, the Apple logo, Mac, Mac OS, Macintosh, iPad, iPhone, Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Safari, Objective-C and Bonjour are trademarks of Apple.
Apple, the Apple logo, Mac, Mac OS, Macintosh, Multi-Touch, iPhone, iPod touch, iTunes and Apple Store are trademarks of Apple.
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