Logos Whether Stolen or Not Controversial

While trying to make a brand known and memorable copying another brand it doesn’t make much sense. Sometimes the reason for using a logo with a similar design can be that the brands are in a similar business line.

So it is perhaps logical that many sports teams and car brands have logos that share similar shapes and motifs, but sometimes when it goes beyond inspiration Many brands can be confronted in court.

The world-famous coffee company Starbucks was sued with a coffee company in China for using both its logo and the Chinese meaning of its name without permission.

As a result of the cure in 2003, Shanghai Xingbake company used the Chinese name of Starbucks and imitated the design of their cafe. “illegitimate competition” decided to enter. In addition, the company had to pay $62,000 compensation to Starbucks and change its name and logo.

The search engine Goojje, which the Chinese made available by copying Google up to its logo, was not changed despite all the warnings of the giant company and became one of the most used search engines in China for about two years.

Formula 1 changed its logo in 2017. However, the logo was sued because it was very similar to the logo on a product of 3M.

between two very similar logos. only difference The absence of the number 1 in the 3M Futuro logo.

Airbnb’s new logo, which changed its logo in 2014, was exactly the same as Automation Anywhere, which published its logo in the same year, unfortunately.

between two companies as a result of negotiations Automation Anywhere has switched to a new logo design that doesn’t look like the Airbnb logo.

NBC introduced its new logo with the million dollar design in 1976. Shortly after the promotion, an American TV station sued NBC for resembling ETV logos.

As a result of the lawsuit, NBC quickly switched to another logo design and eventually the classic peacock-based chose the design.

When music streaming service Pandora introduced its logo in 2016, PayPal sued the company for resembling its logo and confusing users.

As a result of the lawsuit, a settlement was reached and three months later. Pandora has shared its new logo.

This time the Chinese were imitated. Also by Apple.

The Chinese clothing brand Kon is on Apple’s App Store logo copyright infringement He applied to the court alleging that he had done so.

Red Bull sued the logo of the soda brand named ‘Zilli Öküz’ founded by a citizen named Salman Akşun on the grounds that it could be confused with their own logo.

The dispute that arose due to the logos of the two brands was brought to court when the parties could not resolve it. As a result of the lawsuit between the two brands there is no visual and auditory similarityThe lawsuit was dismissed as it was decided that there was no possibility of confusion by the consumer.

The logo chosen in a logo competition organized by Kırklareli University in 2008 remained on the agenda for a long time because of its similarity to the logo of the Macau Special Administrative Region of China.

The logos of Beşiktaş and Mecidiyeköy Tayfunspor were exactly the same. However, as a result of the lawsuit filed by Beşiktaş, Tayfunspor announced that they no longer use this logo.

The logo, which was chosen as a result of the logo design competition of Uşak Municipality with an award of 8.000 TL, drew quite a reaction when the similarity of the logo of a candy brand owned by the famous tennis player Maria Sharapova was revealed.

Facebook was sued by a bank called Current over the logo of its cryptocurrency wallet Calibra.

After a while, the company changed the name of Calibra. Novi changed to. Then he closed Novi.

The logo of Sultangazispor draws attention with its similarity to the logo of Osasuna, one of the Spanish football league teams.

When Facebook’s name was changed to Meta, the similarity of its logo with a Germany-based health center ‘M-Sense’ brought along the stolen claims.

In the face of this similarity, the health company, from its social media accounts, witty posts and did not care much about the logo similarity.

Renewed in 2013, the logo of Avea, which currently serves as Türk Telekom, was quite similar to the logo of Google Wallet.

Even if the logo of Menemenspor, which has been used by Fenerbahce in Izmir for years, has changed, the similarity of each new logo to Fenerbahce’s logo is widely criticized.

When designing something, of course, it can be inspired by things that have been done before. However, exact copying and theft of labor damage the reputation and reliability of the brand, and as you can see in our content, it can also lead to lawsuits.