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by DaiPlusPlus 2131 days ago
And there's plenty of examples of computer-related companies and organizations with Pear and fruit-related names, what about [PearPC](http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/)? Their SourceForge website and GitHub page are up.

And this company is selling Apple logo parody MacBook stickers on Amazon - how is this also not infringing on their trademarks if we use the same standard? https://www.amazon.com/Sockeroos-Sticker-Partial-Macbook-Uni... -

Colour Banana too (Banans are fruit!): https://colourbanana.com/

It's too easy to find these just by googling right now - I want to know what Prepear did that attracted Apple's lawyer's attention...

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Parody is protected under fair use. Though those stickers don't seem very parodic.
Nitpick: Fair-use is a defense for claims of copyright infringement, not trademark use violations; but trademark law does have built-in exemptions for parody though ( https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2019/10/08/parody-unde... ) so your point still stands.

However I would argue those stickers were parody.