Apple is currently facing a $1.6 billion lawsuit. Proview Technology Inc. (PTI), a Shenzhen company, is claiming that Apple is guilty of copyright infringement for PTI’s trademarked “iPad” name associated with a product of their own.
Apple rebutted with the argument that when they had purchased the right to the “iPad” name from PTI global last year that the trademark included China in this deal.
Apparently this is not the first case where Apple has been charged with trademark conflicts. In 2007, the iPhone ran into the same issues Comwave Telecom Inc., an internet telephone service company based in Toronto.
So, although this is nothing new, it has real potential to set Apple at a significant disadvantage as they try to “establish a foothold in the world’s largest marketplace”. It will be interesting to see how this will play out as Apple is such a globally recognized company and the iPad is their newest product.
Apple rebutted with the argument that when they had purchased the right to the “iPad” name from PTI global last year that the trademark included China in this deal.
Apparently this is not the first case where Apple has been charged with trademark conflicts. In 2007, the iPhone ran into the same issues Comwave Telecom Inc., an internet telephone service company based in Toronto.
So, although this is nothing new, it has real potential to set Apple at a significant disadvantage as they try to “establish a foothold in the world’s largest marketplace”. It will be interesting to see how this will play out as Apple is such a globally recognized company and the iPad is their newest product.
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