China Trademark Dispute with Apple: We Own the iPad Trademark
Trademark lawyers are known to be zealous advocates for their owners' marks. But Apple’s lawyers will not quit by appealing the court ruling in China that rejected its ownership of the iPad trademark in that country. Last month, the Higher People’s Court of Guangdong Province ruled that a local company, Proview International actually owns the trademark in China. According to Apple, they bought the rights to the name legally from a UK-based company known as I.P. Applications. I.P. Applications had previously purchased the mark from a Proview subsidiary in Taiwan. But the Chinese court ruled that the Proview subsidiary did...
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