I had reported earlier on the fact that Apple is threatening to sue a café called Apfelkind here in Bonn because of their logo and that the owner of Apfelkind had decided to fight Apple’s claims. Now it looks like she might be in for a harder fight then we had originally thought as it seems Apple has registered the mark “The Apple Cafe” in Germany in 1996:

Link to German source article

I still think Apple’s claim that there could be market confusion is bogus, not least of all because even while Apple has registered the trademark, to the best of my knowledge, they haven’t actually ever used it or are planning to. But I am not a lawyer and I have no idea if that argument would actually be worth anything in court. I think we will just have to wait and see how this plays out, unless of course the owner of Apfelkind folds in light of these new developments.

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I had reported earlier on the fact that Apple is threatening to sue a café called Apfelkind here in Bonn because of their logo and that the owner of Apfelkind had decided to fight Apple's claims. Now it looks like she might be in for a harder fight then we had originally thought as ...