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title: 4.1 Copycats
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# 4.1 Copycats

4.1 Copycats (a) Come up with your own ideas.

## Overview

**4.1 Copycats**

**(a)** Come up with your own ideas. We know you have them, so make yours come to life. Don’t simply copy the latest popular app on the App Store, or make some minor changes to another app’s name or UI and pass it off as your own. In addition to risking an intellectual property infringement claim, it makes the App Store harder to navigate and just isn’t fair to your fellow developers.

**(b)** Submitting apps which impersonate other apps or services is considered a violation of the Developer Code of Conduct and may result in removal from the Apple Developer Program.

**(c)** You cannot use another developer’s icon, brand, or product name in your app’s icon or name, without approval from the developer.