Apple Corps uses a shiny green apple as its logo, while Apple Computer has a cartoon-like apple with a neat bite taken out. Lawyers for each side tussled during the hearing over advertisements for iTunes featuring musical acts U2, Eminem and Coldplay, using the logo.
The 1991 agreement ended previous lengthy litigation over the logo. Apple Computer told the court that it paid the Fab Four’s company $26.5 million as part of the 1991 out-of-court settlement, and in return had received ‘‘a considerably expanded field of use’’.
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