“Apple has appealed a Chinese court ruling last December that rejected its ownership of the iPad trademark in the country, and could expose the company to trademark infringement lawsuits from a local company,” Michael Kan reports for IDG News Service.
“Apple had originally filed a lawsuit against Proview to assert its control of the trademark,” Kan reports. “But in December, the Shenzhen Municipal Intermediate People’s Court announced it had rejected Apple’s claim.”
Kan reports, “In its lawsuit, Apple claimed that a Proview subsidiary in Taiwan had sold the iPad trademark rights to a U.K.-based company called ‘IP Applications.’ The trademark rights were then sold to Apple in 2010.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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Apple will prevail. There’s really only one iPad.
Probably not, unfortunately. A foreign company against a Chinese company doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in Hades.
well see…
Apparently, you have little knowledge of China and her politics, policies and corruption. It will cost a lot of money to get the name there if Apple is willing.
Rename the Chinese version the ChinkPad and be done with it.
You made me laugh! Hilarious!
I really wonder who posts below grade school level racial taunts. My little brother’s group passed on it, but it seems alive and well with some anonymous “folks”.
Maybe I have classes with some closet racists who only let it known to their in-crowd bigots, or maybe work with some at the studio.
I just would like to see who they are. Not to ridicule, just to see them, what kind of work they do and all.
Tell ya what, you post your real name, address and picture and I’ll do the same. You go first.
More likely, it will be called the Apple Pad
Why isn’t there a link in this site to report, say, hate language? (Plus, some other guy thinks his racist slur is hilarious.) Maybe because Superior Boing is an extreme exception to the generally intelligent, if impassioned contributions here? Is it OK to say fuck you, Superior Boing, you racist shithead? If not, why not?
*snort*
Just remove the name from the back of the device. People will call it an iPad anyway. I don’t know how they would change things on the website though.
Maybe they could call it the ‘Apple Eye Pad.’ The trademark ‘Apple Logo’ with an eye looking out. 🙂
Where is the link to foul language?