> notmyfirstrodeo2: You don't even need to be some top notch designer to come up with similar idea in total vacuum...
Exactly. This is an @ with a two storey a, and stylized so it’s made in one stroke. Companies as big as Facebook don’t copy other company’s logos in a way that the OTHER trademark holder now has a case against them. This is almost certainly just simultaneous creation.
You can name your beachside restaurant “Shell” and use a shell as the logo, and even apply for a trademark if you want. As long as you haven’t lifted the specific copyrighted mark itself, and you’re not drilling for or selling oil, you’re good to go. Both of you have the ability to use the word “Shell” and (differing) images of a shell as a logo.
This is an @ symbol used for a social media site, and a different @ symbol used for an online pharmacy as far as I can tell.
These companies are in two very different businesses so there is unlikely to even be any “development” - some redditors just noticed they are similar that’s all