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Wapple Wins Trademark Battle Over Apple
While Apple is busy fighting Proview over the iPad trademark in China, it has lost a separate trademark battle in Europe: Wapple, the mobile web developers, have won a suit filed by Apple over its name. The suit, originally filed in 2007, claimed that Wapple was trading on Apple’s brand association and name, although Wapple had filed for a trademark on “Wapple” in 2006. Wapple, which has been around since 2002 — way before the smartphone explosion — has long said that its name was wordplay on the WAP protocol,...
Published By: Tech Crunch - Wednesday, 22 February
