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Apple battles to avoid iPad ban in China

The latest stage of Apple’s battle to use the “iPad” trademark in China saw heated exchanges in a Shanghai court, as the technology giant fought to avoid disruption to global supplies of its best-selling tablet.

t is under attack from Shenzhen Proview Technology, a Chinese company, which registered the iPad trademark in 2001. Apple bought rights to the name fro £35,000 from a Taiwanese company affiliated with Proview but the mainland company says it still owns the name in China.

Proview’s lawyer Xie Xianghui today argued that the sale of the iPad trademark to Apple by the Taiwanese affiliate in 2009 was invalid.

"Apple has no right to sell iPads under that name," Xie said.

Apple countered that Proview violated the sales contract by failing to transfer the trademark rights in mainland China. It also claimed that Proview has not marketed its own “IPAD” for several years, thus possibly invalidating its claim to the trademark.

As evidence in court, Proview presented a flat, thin computer packed in a cardboard box that it said is its "IPAD."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/9097994/Apple-battles-t...

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Comment by Jaime Vicente Ruiz on February 25, 2012 at 20:22: Welcome to the Circus.. "i-Paid" so goes somebody's complaint..

Comment by Chris Knight on February 23, 2012 at 12:29: Sounds like a buncha "iCrap" to me.

Comment by Chris Knight on February 23, 2012 at 12:27: Amazing. A company that switched from making tablet-like LCD products to flat-screen plasma televisions, years ago, suddenly pulls one out in court and declares that it's their "iPAD"? How desperate to get out of bankruptcy can ya get!!

Comment by Richard Roman on February 23, 2012 at 10:10: So the Apple iPAD is fake and the fake iPAD is real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Taking the idra of fake to a whole new level!