Re: Who owns the Apple II brand

[Ralf Quint <Ralf_Quint@hot_mail.com>]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2001 03:05:27 GMT, "EddieG"
<noEddieGspam@cableinet.co.uk> wrote:

>
>"usenet" <usenet@usenet.org> wrote in message
>usenet-0308011326530001@162-nas-cdn.ilos.net">news:usenet-0308011326530001@162-nas-cdn.ilos.net...
>> In article <usenet-0308011323060001@162-nas-cdn.ilos.net>,
>> usenet@usenet.org (usenet) lied:
>> > To put your question to bed: Apple Computer, Inc. never "sold away" and
>> > Apple II trademarks or copyrights.
>>
>>
>> The above reply was supposed to read:
>> To put your question to bed: Apple Computer, Inc. never "sold away" ANY
>> Apple II trademarks or copyrights.
>
>Apple didn't own the "Apple" copyright to begin with. In Paul McCartney's
>autoboigraphy, Many Years From Now, he says that one of the first things The
>Beatles did when they set up Apple was to copyright the name, which was then
>licensed to Apple later on. So the Apple copyright was never theirs to sell.
>
First, their is no "copyright" on a name, it could only be a
"trademark" in conjunction with a logo.
And that Apple Computers can claim that their logo is a registered
trademark, is due to the fact that they got an agreement in 1981 with
Apple Records (which registered their logo first, 1967/1968?), that
they can keep their name AND logo (the apple with the bite), as long
as Apple Computers has nothing to do with music. There was a later
court battle between Apple computers and Apple Records (1989/1990?),
because of some audio supporting features in Macintosh computers (MIDI
support?, can't remember right now), but this was also settled out of
court quickly, with Apple Computers paying Apple Records.