“A local court has rejected an effort by a Chinese company to stop Apple from selling its popular iPad here amid a trademark dispute over who owns the rights to the iPad name,” David Barboza reports for The New York Times. “The Shanghai Pudong New Area People’s Court released a statement on its Web site Thursday saying that it would not rule because a related trademark court case between the two companies was pending in Guangdong Province, in southern China.”
“An Apple spokeswoman confirmed the court decision and said the company would continue to challenge the position of the Chinese company, Proview International, which claims to own the trademark rights to the iPad name in mainland China,” Barboza reports. “‘Proview’s injunction request was rejected,’ Carolyn Wu, the Apple spokeswoman, said in a telephone interview Thursday. ‘The court granted Apple’s request to suspend the case.’ Apple insists that one of its subsidiaries acquired the rights to the iPad name in China from the Chinese company several years before the tablet computer was released.”
Barboza reports, “Shanghai was the Chinese company’s first major test of whether it could disrupt Apple’s selling apparatus in China.”
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Proview made chop sue-y.
tez, you may be more spot on than you know. chop suey, or literally (za sui (杂碎)) means cooked entrails. LOL.
as steve jobs might say to proview: did you guys have a bozo explosion or what?
I think history will remember Proview the same way it remembers Psystar. (Or, doesn’t remember Psystar, as the case may be.) 😉
I wonder if Rattymouse works for Proview now?
Perhaps their name should be translated from Mandarin as AmateurView.
And risk being sued by AmateurHour? Oh, sorry, I mean RIM!
Am I the only one hoping that this bullsh*t doesn’t just end with Proview losing their suit, but being punished in some way, if not by the courts then by the markets? This suit is clearly a joke and similar suits need to be strongly discouraged.
——RM
no way to punish a company in bankruptcy except to have the communists take over the ancestral family farms of all the “c” levels and raffle them off to the foxconn assemblers.
Communist China has many ways of punishing people, no doubt. I would just be happy to see the CEO of Proview lose his home.
“Cerebral hemorrhage” would be appropriate.
…or you could just give them a good flogging!
Yeah win the case, then equalize their debts with the involved parties, then have Apple buy that defunct company for 10c, then make it Apple’s main asian distributor. 🙂
Apple should sue Proview because the name was lifted from one of Apple’s products: Preview.
you mess wid da bull, you get the horns….American courts should be so expeditious.
Wow. Shanghai takes contract law seriously.
Frack you little Proview crooks. Roll up your worthless little company and die.