Apple Cinemas Won't Back Down in Trademark Battle with Apple

Apple Cinemas, the institution that is being sued for alleged trademark infringement by Apple, today said that it is committed to defending its brand.


We are committed to defending our brand, our history, and our continued close to run arsenic Apple Cinemas--an individuality that is and has ever been intelligibly chiseled and afloat compliant with each applicable trademark laws.

Apple Cinemas is simply a long-established autarkic theatre concatenation with nary transportation to Apple Inc. Our sanction reflects our geographic roots and has ne'er been intended to suggest, oregon utilized to imply, immoderate affiliation with their brand. Furthermore, claims of user disorder are unfounded. Apple Cinema's branding [sic] is intelligibly differentiated.

We person responded reasonably and transparently to each ineligible communications regarding this substance and stay focused connected increasing our concern and marque successful bully faith, arsenic we person for implicit a decade.
Apple filed a lawsuit against Apple Cinemas past Friday. Apple's attorneys accused Apple Cinemas of "knowingly and intentionally utilizing the sanction Apple to sow disorder for its ain benefit."

Apple Cinemas has operated since 2013, and the institution claims that its sanction came from its archetypal planned determination astatine Apple Valley Mall successful Rhode Island, but a movie theatre ne'er opened astatine that mall. Apple Cinemas operates 14 full locations, according to its website. One of those is successful San Francisco, California, portion the others are successful Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and New York.

Apple believes that Apple Cinemas is pursuing a nationwide enlargement successful the United States, including adjacent to Apple's office and retail stores.

In the lawsuit, Apple said that its "repeated efforts to resoluteness the substance amicably" were unsuccessful. Apple besides cited comments from radical who were nether the content that Apple Cinemas is owned by Apple. Apple has produced movies and TV shows distributed done its Apple TV+ work since 2019.

Apple Cinemas tried and failed to trademark some the Apple Cinemas sanction and the "Apple Cinemas Experience," with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denying the marks successful 2024 due to the fact that of imaginable disorder with Apple's anterior trademark rights.

Apple is seeking monetary damages and an injunction to halt Apple Cinemas from utilizing the name.
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