Apple has agreed to pay $60m to Chinese firm Proview to settle a dispute involving rights to the "iPad" name, a court in China has said.

Proview had claimed that it owned the rights to the iPad name in the Chinese market after registering it in 2000.

However, Apple had insisted that it had acquired the worldwide rights for the name in 2009.


[www.bbc.co.uk]

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You can tell a lot about a woman by her hands...
- For example, if they are wrapped around your throat she's probably slightly upset.

Cheap at the price. Really cheap. Sounds like Proview used it to pay off their debts.. which is why the bankruptcy court judge got involved, I guess.

Was Apple already selling iPads in Chins? If not, this means it will recoup that $60M in a matter of weeks.

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Was Apple already selling iPads in Chins? If not, this means it will recoup that $60M in a matter of weeks.

Edit: they were already selling them.

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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde

However, Apple had insisted that it had acquired the worldwide rights for the name in 2009.

And in one instance Proview insisted that Proview subsidiary did not have the right to sell rights to Apple.


they were already selling them.

I don't think they were selling the new iPad. Or at least all throughout China.

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We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

-An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

There is no safety for honest men
except by believing all possible evil
of evil men.

Pixels were born to be punished. -Frederick Van Johnson

Mister, that's a ten-gallon hat on a twenty-gallon head.

I *love* Sigs. It's Glocks I hate.

Was still a successful hijack by trolls.

Sorry, but they would only succeed in the lawless land of IP called China.