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Yet Another App Store Issue with Trademarked Icons

18 Nov 2009

There have already been a lot of reported issues, but add one more.

The Langalot iPhone app didn’t pass the App Store review because “The iCal icon you are using for the Practice Log is an Apple trademarked image.” I could understand it better if we did use the iCal icon or doctored up the iCal icon, but this is the icon in question:

calendar icon

I don’t think you have to use a loupe to notice that the app is not using the iCal icon:

ical icon

But from previous experience, this isn’t worth any time trying to fight. I wasn’t even crazy about the icon to begin with (got it from some free icon set). It just slows down the process of getting the app approved.

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