Apple has been sued by Chinese clothing brand Kon over the similarity of that company’s logo and that of the App Store, Phone Radar reports. When Apple changed the old App Store logo — consiting of a pencil, a ruler and a paintbrush in the shape of an ‘A’ — to a simple format that’s just three overlapping lins in the shape of an ‘A,’ Kon claims the company violated Chinese copyright law since their company already has the rights to a very similar design.
Kon wants an apology, compensation and for Apple to stop selling devices with the new App Store logo. The Beijing People’s Court has accepted the case and is expected to rule on it in the next couple of weeks.
This isn’t the first time Apple has been sued over trademarks in China, and the company lost its exclusive rights to the “iPhone” trademark in the country in a case against Xintong Tiandi Technology, which was granted a trademark on “iPhone” in 2010 to be used in connection to a line of leather goods the company sells.
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