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Apple loses China court battle over iPad
Published: 20 February, 2012, 17:50
(Reuters / Jason Lee)
A Chinese court has ruled that the sales of Apple’s iPads in the country violate the trademark rights of a local manufacturer Proview Technology. The Chinese company claims it has the rights for the name “iPad” in the country.
“Internet Personal Access Device” – that’s the name for the China produced computers with a touch panel technology.
A lawyer for Proview – Xie Xianghui – said the Intermediate People’s Court in Huizhou, China, instructed local distributors to stop selling the tablet computers in the country.
Another hearing is scheduled to take place in Shanghai on Wednesday February 22. Proview is seeking compensation for its losses “comparable with the sales in China.”
The Chinese media estimate those at around 10bln yaun, or approximately $1.58bln.
Monday’s news is yet another round of a long lasting dispute between Apple Inc. and Proview, a Chinese producer of LCD screens, who can’t agree over the rights to the iPad name. Proview says it registered the iPad trademark in China back in 2001 for its touch panel computers. Apple meanwhile insists it holds the trademark, after it bought the iPad name from a Proview affiliate in Taiwan in 2009 for about 35,000 British pounds, or $55,000. The Chinese company, however, won a case in December, when a Mainland court said Proview wasn’t bound by that Taiwan sale.
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You know the mentality of these Chinese people are so dull, if you look at Foxconn the workers are murdered in those conditions, I've heard a story where the construction builders give a quote with specific measurements and then stretch the metal rods in the building's to save 30% on costs, and the government keeps knowledge out of reach from the people by censoring the internet within china...
If western businesses want China as a friend, maybe they should stop demonising China night and day in the news? Even if you agree there is something to be critical of it is hardly strategically clever to make an enemy of the worlds number one economy is it? The zionist USA govt and press are USA businesses worst enemy. The zionists only know how to be hostile and insulting to the worlds nations and then they wonder why they are so despised around the world!.
China should kick apple out of China like it did with google and for the same reasons.....a baligerant nature of animosity.