Wednesday, February 8th 2012
Apple Faces Fines in China, Possible iPad Ban for Trademark Infringement
ProView has the last laugh, while Apple gets a taste of its own medicine, in a remarkable turn of events that unfolded in China. Apple and ProView have been locked in a tussle over the brand name "iPad", which the latter claimed Apple dubiously acquired rights to use in 2006, by floating a shell company called IP Application Development and using it to deal with ProView. ProView had no idea it was dealing with Apple at the time (it was not shared that information), or that Apple would go on to use the name for one of its biggest selling products. A Chinese court ruled in favor of ProView. Apple now has to cough up US $38 million in fines, and sit down with ProView to work out a fresh agreement to using the brand name "iPad", or face a sales ban.
Sources:
China Daily, Global Times, DailyTech
31 Comments on Apple Faces Fines in China, Possible iPad Ban for Trademark Infringement
In any case, AAPL keeps facing karmic retribution. :toast: (They started it!)
Jobs made Apple......Apple......with no Jobs....they're just a target
What?? how can anyone be suprized when a communist owned company, wins a "court" case against a non-chinese company?
Yet our Dear Leader, Heir Harper, is over there with his Controllers and Overlords selling out more Canadian raw resources, more Canadian jobs and im sure a lot of Canadian IP.
I am disgusted. I hope Harper rides their bullet train, and drives around in a chinese made car, maybe a few flights on chinese made airplane. That should greatly increase the odds of something "good" happening.
Apple is getting the fruits of using chinese slave labour, of suing every company that dares to think along His lines.... We need to learn from this...but we will not and Greed will continue to rule.
Edit: I got nothing against American's, just their politic's.
I too have many friends and family south of the 49th, they, like me, are hard working, tax paying people whom i love dearly.
I dislike the american goverment. yet most individual americans i meet I like .....
makes it hard to paint them all with the same brush .... in fact, one i loved for 25 years!! Damn redhead witch!
same for me. their products are rip offs and they are girly.
i should side with proview and make apple withdraw the name iPad.
that should be fun.
Sorry for the O/T :o Back to regular thread schedule :)
ProView is suing for damages as well to the tune of 1.58 BILLION USD
Take those details and fill them into a personal relationship... would anyone care to be your friend after you went out of your way to lie and misrepresent?
American companies are leading the way down a slippery slope where man made laws take president over doing what's right. Doing what is right is as simple as listening to the little Jiminy Cricket in your head... and nearly all of us will come to a similar conclusion. If you listen to man made rules, the man who knows the rules better will come out on top.
Imagine the laugh people will get in 200 years when they read about the way we live life now :) "Seriously? they spent their energy talking about actors instead of the thousands of innocent deaths caused by the Coalition of the Willing's war crimes???"
Sort of veered off topic there didn't I.
www.galatiinternational.com/category/Humisorb.html
Just sell iDry bags for wet iphone and ipads, just bags filled with silica gel sold for 5 bucks t-t, all you need is a little promotion and apple customers will follow
I is the new green, just shove it in front of words and it apparently makes it better.
That skit was before Apple even came out with the iPad, makes the iPad even greater having it's name, lol.