“A lawyer representing Proview International Holdings Ltd. in its dispute with Apple Inc. over the iPad trademark in China said he ‘hopes’ the U.S. company makes contact to begin settlement talks,” Edmond Lococo reports for Bloomberg. “Roger Xie said the two sides haven’t held any formal negotiations on the issue of which company owns the right to use the iPad brand in the world’s most populous nation.”
“Lawyers presented arguments for almost six hours yesterday at the Higher People’s Court of Guangdong before being asked by the three- judge panel if they wished to settle,” Lococo reports. “‘Up to now, we didn’t have any formal negotiations with Apple,’ Xie said in a telephone interview today. ‘I hope they will positively contact us and make an appointment with us about formal negotiations out of court. It would be useful.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: A cash infusion from Apple via
extortion“settlement,” has always been the goal of the Proview failures.
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Apple iPad trademark case in Shanghai suspended; Proview injunction rejected – February 24, 2012
Proview sues Apple in the US, mass hilarity ensues – February 24, 2012
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Chinese court says Apple can continue selling iPads in Shanghai – February 23, 2012
He’s got a long wait!!
The headline cracked me up. lol!
Maybe Proview can get Sally Struthers to talk to Apple for them.
Yeah, gives me a vision of a Chinese guy in a suit sitting by the phone, looking around nervously. Of course he desperately wants Apple to call so he can get his enormous commission from the settlement.
HIs odds are better with the lottery.
theonion.com-ish.
Here is your answer….. NO!
“Hopes for settlement”
Translation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suing_for_peace
Wouldn’t be surprised if Apple went for this. They would gain huge ‘face’ in China and cement their relationship with them…with an undisclosed settlement and full title to the trademark of course.
How there’s an interesting and very positive option. thanks for the link.
Grammar police: “How” s/b “Now”
Yeah, “hope” is about right.
Proview – owner can cry and whine all he wishes. He tried to extort and force Apple to pay for the name iPad.
Best he settle not Apple.
Apple can call it the ‘magical-device3″ now and it will still sell great – the name isn’t the issue – the issue is where Proview plotted to take Apple for such a ride and “it is Proview” who need to settle this.
FSCK’ing losers. Unreal how the sh** comes out of the woodwork to try and profit from Apple’s work. It’s a sad statement on how many Commi’s there are in the world – the bottom feeders that want to be given what they didn’t earn.
A cash infusion from Apple via extortion “settlement,” has always been the goal of the Proview failures
MDN is right.
Why is it – others can italicize and bold and stroke out but I can not?
WL: Please try to avoid stroking out on this forum! 🙂
italic is done by enclosing the word with the html italic tags, the “lesser than” and the “greater than” characters (shift comma or period) enclose the tag. The open tag looks like this [i] and the close tag 9after the word) looks like this [/i], but not using brackets.
In other words, < I >, followed by your word, followed by < /I >.
I couldn’t have written it better! 🙂
TRANSLATION: We’re a bankrupt little company in China, so we REALLY hope Apple will just write us another check to go away.
REALITY: Silence is deafening.
Next they will say apple deceived them to accept the settlement
They pulled that trick last week. Lead balloon…
Lmao at proview. If they have a strong case, why not go all the way? I mean it looks like they Are scared because they knew their case isn’t going anywhere already and instead hoping for apple to just settle. It would be stupid for apple to settle. It’s like saying they don’t have a strong case either.
“Hopes” is the operative word here. However I think “Prays” would be a more accurate one.
I have this vision of a Chinese lawyer sitting at a desk all alone in the middle of the night, singing “I’m so ronery… So ronery…”
I’m going to hell, I just know it.
——RM
What? No, still going thermonuclear! Negotiations over….
Apple will give them the contact they ask for in the form of a thermonuclear warhead.
Eh, I don’t know… I sure wouldn’t want to sit down and negotiate with the same bankrupt doofuses that screwed me over and took me to court. How could apple have an confidence that the negotiation would be valid – I’d fell like Charlie Brown getting ready to kick the football again. Somebody else needs to hold the ball!
Yeah for $55,000. lol
In contrast to the earlier thread about RIMM’s having a 50-50 chance of “negatively pre-announcing” poor results, this lawyer is waiting for Apple to “…positively contact us…” Nope. Apple will probably negatively contact you, Roger.
The only contact he’ll be getting is Tim’s nutsack on his forehead.
Well DUH:
Roger Xie said the two sides haven’t held any formal negotiations on the issue
I wonder why. Oh, I remember:
• There’s a signed contract proving that Apple own the trademark specifically in “China”.
• The court jurisdiction specified in the contract, Hong Kong, upheld the contract.
• The Hong Kong court found Proview to be in breach of contract.
All Apple has to do is watch and laugh. The legal battles and negotiations are way over, no matter how much graft and and goofiness Proview perpetrate. I kind of feel sorry for them deluding themselves that they have a whisper of a case. Yeah right. 😆