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Originally Posted by CYF
I'm not an attorney and this isn't legal advice.
Basically it comes down to industry and confusion.
Now let's take Apple. They make computers and monitors and music players. A new company starts up and tries selling Apple brand televisions. They're in a similar industry of consumer electronics, and yes consumers are likely to confuse the two brands so the use is not ok.
That's basically it in a nutshell.
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Lets say you have a recored company called
Apple Records, it's ok for someone to start a computer company called
Apple Computers? Then could the Apple computer company start a off branch company selling music downloads and call it
Apple Music? Could Apple Music sell downloads of Apple Records songs? What about trademarks? If the Apple records company had a trademarked logo of an apple core could the Apple computer company use a logo of a apple with only one bite out of it? I'm confused
