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From: ecp@mbunix.mitre.org (Eric C. Pivnik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: The Beatles sue Apple
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Date: 27 Feb 89 22:00:51 GMT
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I heard that Apple Records had sued Apple Computer over the use of the 
Apple name and logo, several years ago, and that they reached an out of
court settlement in that Apple Computer agreed not to compete in the
music business.  The argument is that now that A.C. is making music hardware
and software under the Apple logo, A.R. could be damaged if it tried to 
also market music software/hardware.

One would really have to carefully look over the original out-of-court
agreement between AC and AR to know whether the lawsuit is rubbish.
Note that Baretta (the Italian gun manufacturer) successfuly sued GM
over the Baretta trademark.  

-Eric Pivnik

P.S. It's about time someone sued Apple Computer.  There price increases
were obnoxious.