Chinese firm may sue Apple for $2 billion in U.S. over iPad name

By on Feb 17, 2012 at 9:05 AM
Legal February 17, 2012

On Friday, the Chinese company that claims to hold the trademark on the “iPad” name, threatened to sue Apple in the U.S. for $2 billion dollars, reports the AFP. Proview Technology claims it owns the Chinese rights to the iPad name and the company’s lawyers are looking to prevent Apple from importing or exporting the popular tablet in China. “Right now we are selecting from three American law firms to sue Apple in the United States for $2 billion in compensation,” said the chairman of Hejun Vanguard Group, a company working with creditors to restructure Proview. Proview’s chief executive Yang Rongshan has repeatedly denied allegations that the company is extorting Apple in order to pay off its debt.”We own [the iPad trademark] in China,” Rongshan said. “If you were in my position… you would try to protect your rights.” Apple has said that it previously licensed the iPad trademark and Proview is failing to honor its earlier agreement.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001404320774 Angelo Burroak

    Good for them! Serves Apple right for being petty little cry babies. They want to sue everyone and their mother for patent infringement. Bout time someone gave them a taste of their own medicine. This whole Apple patent thing has spun out of control. They are really making a name for themselves. Instead of innovating, they rather sue everyone. Correct me if I’m wrong, but hasn’t Apple been known to steal or build on other people’s ideas in the past? It’s called competition. Grow up Apple! If you are scared then go back to the drawing board and come up with something new and exciting that surpasses the competition and not just catches up to them.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001404320774 Angelo Burroak

    Good for them! Serves Apple right for being petty little cry babies. They want to sue everyone and their mother for patent infringement. Bout time someone gave them a taste of their own medicine. This whole Apple patent thing has spun out of control. They are really making a name for themselves. Instead of innovating, they rather sue everyone. Correct me if I’m wrong, but hasn’t Apple been known to steal or build on other people’s ideas in the past? It’s called competition. Grow up Apple! If you are scared then go back to the drawing board and come up with something new and exciting that surpasses the competition and not just catches up to them.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001404320774 Angelo Burroak

    Good for them! Serves Apple right for being petty little cry babies. They want to sue everyone and their mother for patent infringement. Bout time someone gave them a taste of their own medicine. This whole Apple patent thing has spun out of control. They are really making a name for themselves. Instead of innovating, they rather sue everyone. Correct me if I’m wrong, but hasn’t Apple been known to steal or build on other people’s ideas in the past? It’s called competition. Grow up Apple! If you are scared then go back to the drawing board and come up with something new and exciting that surpasses the competition and not just catches up to them.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001404320774 Angelo Burroak

    http://phandroid.com/2012/02/17/google-also-files-for-patent-on-notification-pull-down-bar-yeah-back-in-09-fun-facts/

    Read this! They want to play games with suing Motorola over “Slide To Unlock” gestures, well if Google gets granted their notification patent, which was filed in the beginning of 2009, I hope they sue the socks off of Apple. Apple comes out with (1) PHONE A YEAR. Look at the crap they released last year. But all the Lemmings followed suit and gave those communists their hard earned money for a copycat phone of what they released a year ago…Oh, and how is your battery life treating you?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001404320774 Angelo Burroak

    http://phandroid.com/2012/02/17/google-also-files-for-patent-on-notification-pull-down-bar-yeah-back-in-09-fun-facts/

    Read this! They want to play games with suing Motorola over “Slide To Unlock” gestures, well if Google gets granted their notification patent, which was filed in the beginning of 2009, I hope they sue the socks off of Apple. Apple comes out with (1) PHONE A YEAR. Look at the crap they released last year. But all the Lemmings followed suit and gave those communists their hard earned money for a copycat phone of what they released a year ago…Oh, and how is your battery life treating you?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000465352584 Mohsin Khan

    Take dat ‘Apple’.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000465352584 Mohsin Khan

    Take dat ‘Apple’.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=691064668 John Molloy

    Tucker Peterson They sold the trademark a few years back. This is a shakedown.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=691064668 John Molloy

    Tucker Peterson They sold the trademark a few years back. This is a shakedown.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=687065652 Tucker Peterson

    Mapel SA It’s Trademark trolling but Apple does the exact same thing and calls it “Protecting their Patent” so why is this different?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=687065652 Tucker Peterson

    Mapel SA It’s Trademark trolling but Apple does the exact same thing and calls it “Protecting their Patent” so why is this different?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=691064668 John Molloy

    @Bradley Actually that is completely wrong.

    Firstly Kodak sued Apple.

    Secondly Proview sold the rights to IPADL and only started having a hissy fit when they became financially unsound and found out it was actually Apple.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=691064668 John Molloy

    @Bradley Actually that is completely wrong.

    Firstly Kodak sued Apple.

    Secondly Proview sold the rights to IPADL and only started having a hissy fit when they became financially unsound and found out it was actually Apple.

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