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What a sensationalized headline (and not the first one I read on the topic).
Apple didn't send lawyers to prevent his company repairing devices, but because the company uses Apple trademarks in their marketing material which then could confuse customers into believing this is an official Apple service partner.
It's pretty standard brand/trademark protection going on, and as far as I know you actually have to protect your trademarks to a certain extent.
This stuff is happening a lot, and this time news outlets chose to make it seem like Tim Cook himself wants this man in prison.
From the article
This makes it sound like he shouldn't even use the name of the products, which would be ridiculous. How do you advertise iPhone repair if you cannot use the term iPhone, or pictures of the specific models?
The article doesn't link to any of the materials, so I can't say whether they are actually misleading (using Apple's name and logo could be easily avoided) or not.