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  1. In 1978, Apple Corps, the Beatles-founded holding company and owner of their record label, Apple Records, filed a lawsuit against Apple Computer for trademark infringement. The suit was settled in 1981 for the then-undisclosed amount of US$ 80,000 (equivalent to $268,100 in 2023) being paid to Apple Corps. [ 1]

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  3. Apple Corps v. Apple Computers. Jacob Gersen. The Beatles, who had started a record label and general purpose company called Apple Corps, sued Apple Computer for trademark violation. The two companies reached a settlement and Apple Computer agreed to stick to making computers.

  4. Jul 19, 2018 · You read that right, from 1978 to 2007 the multimedia corporation Apple Corps Ltd, owned by the fab four from Liverpool, took Apple Inc. (then called Apple Computer) to battle in the High Court of Justice in the UK.

  5. Aug 21, 2023 · In 1978, Apple Corps, the holding company for The Beatles and owner of their record label, Apple Records, filed a lawsuit against the then up-and-coming Apple Computer for trademark infringement. The trademark in question was the image of an Apple which both companies were using at the time.

  6. Oct 11, 2016 · Apple Corps held the rights to “creative works whose principal content is music” while Apple Computer was now allowed to build and market products that would “reproduce, run, play or...

  7. Sep 17, 2004 · Apple Computer is pursuing a massive settlement with The Beatles‘ record company, Apple Corps Records, which has sued Apple several times over the past 20 years. If ever there were two cultural and business institutions known for their ability to generate utterly bizarre rumors, they would have to be the two Apples.

  8. Mar 31, 2006 · For years, the record label founded by The Beatles, Apple Corps, was engaged in an ongoing legal squabble with Apple Computer over use of the Apple name and logo. Yes, the exact logos were different, but the name was the same, and so was the general image of an apple.

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