A Chinese court on Wednesday dismissed Apple’s request to declare it the only legal owner of the iPad trademark in China.
The Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court rejected Apple’s claim that Chinese firm Proview Technology was illegally using the iPad name. The court ruled that Proview Technology had legal right to use the iPad name for its product as it had registered the trademark in China as well as many other countries as back as 2000.
Proview International registered the iPad trademark in several countries between 2000 and 2004, when it made an ill-fated attempt to launch tablet computers. Proview’s parent company sold the global trademark to the iPad name to Apple in 2006 for around $35,000, but Proview International claims that sale of the trademark don’t apply in China.
The ruling could force the Cupertino, Calif.-based gadget maker to pay as much as $1.6 billion for the right to retail the iPad name in mainland China.
Speaking about the ruling, Proview’s lawyer Xiao Caiyuan said, “Because Apple is a very influential company, no one wants to think they are being unreasonable. But in this case, they really are being unreasonable.”
Caiyuan further said that they would seek a ban on selling of Apple iPad in China.
However, Apple can appeal the ruling.
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