A lawyer representing Proview International on Monday announced that
the Intermediate People’s Court in Huizhou, a city in southern China,
ruled on Friday that distributors should stop selling iPads in China,
Associated Press reports.
Proview has claimed ownership of the “iPad” name in China and it says
Apple is violating its trademark. “We bought Proview’s worldwide rights
to the iPad trademark in 10 different countries several years ago.
Proview refuses to honor their agreement with Apple in China and a Hong
Kong court has sided with Apple in this matter,” Apple spokeswoman
Carolyn Wu said earlier in response to the lawsuits. Proview is looking
to prevent Apple from
importing or exporting the popular tablet in China and may sue the Cupertino-based company for as much as
$2 billion in the United States. At least
45 iPads had been pulled from store shelves in
various Chinese cities last week, however Apple’s tablets were still
being sold at numerous retail locations across the country.
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