Apple iPad will use the trademark in China and Taiwan no longer be outlawed: it has paid a sum of 60 million dollars to the local society Proview that several years before the debut of Cupertino's tablet had registered the brand in the Asian territory, for another product. It thus closes a legal controversy that sees Apple sure winner, as the first request for Proview was even 1.6 billion dollars for the "discomfort" caused. Position that is slightly softened then dropping to $ 400 million until the final decision of the court in Guangdong of "only" 60 million. A high figure but not sufficient for Proview you start a decisive step toward failure.
The Proview Technology had demanded compensation of 1.6 billion dollars that Apple would use a mark already registered. What? iPad. The name chosen for the tablet from Cupertino home was in fact correspond to that of a patented product in China and Taiwan since 2000, and being iPad officially released in 2010, Apple would be forced to pay the Chinese. It is not the first time that Apple has to face such a problem, partly because of the simple choice of names in its portfolio. The Proview Technology asks it to Apple 1.6 billion in fines for using a mark already patented. The story dates back to 2000 when the Asian giant iPad recorded for use in China and Taiwan. The story would come out just now because, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, the company would be a grave economic situation and thus should make ends meet.
Having read so that Apple can count on a surprising liquidity of over $ 400 billion (the company currently ranks first in this special classification), the Proview Technology has seen fit to ask for a small part, using an old case of coincidence. It had happened at the launch of the iPhone, which used a term already registered by Cisco, but it was settled. The Chinese are already making their lawyers, have also taken steps to prepare themselves back with the statement that open to the goodness and the prestige of Cupertino who has made "a great device, which Apple has been able to exploit," says Yang Rongshan, president of Proview Technology, which then adds, "But is not a valid reason to justify his incorrect behavior here." From immediately thought of two possible solutions.
The first was that Apple would pay compensation to the Chinese society. The second, more likely, is that for the period of the process will be blocked trade iPad in China and Taiwan but then return to the situation today in a short time, as in Germany. China and Apple are two worlds in continuous conflict, although in Asia there are many of the manufacturers who produce the iDevice, Foxconn head. Eventually, he found a very cheap deal for Apple: $ 60 million and greetings with the Proview now bankrupt.
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