March 30, 2006	Thursday	Safar 29, 1427

LONDON, March 29: The Beatles’ record company Apple Corps resumed battle with Apple Computer at London’s High Court on Wednesday, accusing the US company of breaching a trademark agreement by promoting music products.

The dispute centres on Apple Computer’s revolutionary iTunes music store website, which allows users of its iPod to download and save thousands of songs.

The rock and roll legends’ multimedia corporation is suing the US firm over the use of the Apple name and logo in a dispute which goes back to the 1980s.

London-based Apple Corps claims the computer company is in breach of a 1991 agreement which forbade each side entering the other’s exclusive “field of use” of the Apple name.

The deal between the companies gave Apple Corps — owned by former Beatles Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the widows of bandmates John Lennon and George Harrison — the exclusive right to use “apple” marks for the record business, the firm’s lawyer Geoffrey Vos said.—AFP