Apple Loses Bid to Stop Swatch Using Jobs’s ‘One More Thing’ Cue

  • Judge said Swatch hadn’t overstepped the mark using phrase
  • Apple didn’t give example of any alleged Swatch parody: judge

Steve Jobs at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2011.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg 

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“One more thing,” Steve Jobs would say at the end of many an Apple Inc. keynote, giving his cue for announcing a surprise new product.

But Apple can’t keep its founder’s turn of phrase for itself, a London judge ruled Monday as he sided with Swiss watchmaker Swatch Group AG in a long-running dispute over trademarks.