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Apple will no longer be able to use one of its most mythical slogans exclusively in Europe | Technology

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Throughout its history, Apple has launched many advertising campaigns that have become a myth. The first was the 1984 ad, possibly the most influential in history.

His most famous catchphrase is Think Different (Think Different), that you will no longer be able to use exclusively in the European Union. Here you can see the original advertising campaign: great characters of history that changed the world for not following the conventions of their time:

created by the agency TBWA / Chiat / Day in 1997, Apple used it for more than a decade in advertisements and on the boxes of its products.becoming the icon of the brand.

But, as our colleague Alberto R. Aguiar tells en Business Insiderin 2016 the Swiss watchmaker Swatch launched a campaign titled Tick Different (Sounds different), which Apple did not hesitate to report to the European Patent Office (EUIPO).

Swatch claimed that Think Different had lost its exclusivity because Apple hadn’t used it for 5 years. Apple’s defense was not admitted, so appealed to the General Court of the EU.

Apple’s argument is that although it is true that the slogan was deprecated, kept including it on their iMacsand was constantly in the press and on the Internet.

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According to Business Insider account, this week The General Court of the EU has dismissed his appeal.because Apple has not been able or has not wanted to demonstrate with figures how many iMacs were sold in Europe between 2011 and 2016 (certainly much less than in the United States).

It also alleges that these appearances in the press and on the Internet mostly refer to the original campaigns of the slogan, in the early 2000s, and not in 2016.

So from now on, Apple’s Think Different slogan is not copyrighted, and anyone can use it. Will someone dare to use it as is, or is it still too tied to the collective memory of Apple?

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