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Apple doesn't sell apples or any other kind of fruit. That's my guess as to why Apple is an acceptable trademark for phones, computers, music (per arrangement with Apple Records), etc, but Snapchat's Spectacles trademark was rejected. The term for this is "arbitrary mark".



note that apple did get sued by apple corps (the beatles music) when they began introducing music features to their computers with the IIgs and similar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer




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