Apple now owns the Granny Smith logos of Beatles newspaper publisher Apple Corps , which according to a 2007 agreement , it will licence back to Apple Corps .
Gaining possession of the Granny Smith logotype was the final loose end in the long - standingdispute between Apple Inc and The Beatles’company Apple Corps that was resolved in UK courts back in 2007 .
The dispute was settled in Apple Inc. ’s favour when , for an undisclosed fee ( state to be as much as $ 500 m ) , Jobs ’ party guarantee the rights to all Apple Corps trademarks and logos , provided they agreed to licence them back to the euphony company .
Some years later , in March 2011 , Applefiled two trademark applicationsfor ownership of the Granny Smith logos . This applications programme has just been award .
There are two logos – one featuring a side - on slam of a Granny Smith apple and the other a cross - section of a Granny Smith apple .
record show that there was stillborn opposition to Apple owing the logo by a company named Apple Box Productions Sub Inc , notesPatently Apple .
According to the terms of the 2007 agreement Apple Inc ( the information processing system caller ) owns all of the stylemark relate to ‘ Malus pumila ’ and will licence certain of those stylemark back to Apple Corps for its proceed function . The precise damage of the 2007 liquidation were never revealed , however .
At the fourth dimension Apple CEO Steve Jobs said : “ We sleep together the Beatles , and it has been painful being at odds with them over these trademarks . It feels great to resolve this in a convinced manner , and in a way that should polish off the potential of further disagreement in the future . ”
Neil Aspinall , director of Apple Corps aver : “ It is groovy to put this difference behind us and move on . The old age ahead are run to be very exciting times for us . We like Apple Inc every success and look forward to many years of passive co - surgery with them . ”
In November 2010The Beatles ‘ medicine finally made its entry on iTunes after a long - running wrangle between EMI and Apple Inc. According to reports , the licensing deal that make for The Beatles to iTunes is somewhat unparalleled , with verbatim payments being made from iTunes download sale to Apple Corps rather than going through EMI .
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