Apple Challenged Prepear's Pear Logo

In 2020, Apple filed a trademark opposition against Prepear, a five-person recipe and meal-planning company that used a green pear as its logo. Apple claimed the minimalist pear resembled its famous bitten-apple symbol closely enough to confuse consumers, despite the companies operating in different industries. A man named Russell Monson, who founded Prepear, said Apple demanded that the company change its logo and that the legal expenses had already forced it to lay off one employee. He launched an online petition to publicize the dispute, which attracted nearly 35,000 signatures.

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