It is only a small cafe in the centre of a small German city, but its owner has succeeded where the Beatles failed and won a legal standoff with the US computer giant Apple. Apfelkind (Apple Child) is a cafe in Bonn where parents can sip lattes while children play with toys or listen to storytellers. Its logo shows the outline of a child’s face within a red apple – with none of the characteristic bite marks of the electronics manufacturer’s logo. Yet when Apfelkind’s owner, Christin Romer, filed a trademark application for her company in 2011, Apple contacted her and requested her withdraw the application since customers could potentially confuse the two logos. Romer stood firm and a two-year legal correspondence ensued. Apple withdrew its objection in September.