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Haha... Maybe Apple can pay back some of your debts to China before buying Brazil!!!
Apple should just buy Brazil.
Haha... Maybe Apple can pay back some of your debts to China before buying Brazil!!!
Apple should just buy Brazil.
It's a trademark not a patent.
they don't "have" to make a phone.
It certainly helps though... at lot. If they aren't making phones Apple could reasonably argue that their use of "iPhone" is unlikely to cause confusion between the products of the two companies.
Mess? They owned this trademark years before iPhone existed. How are they messing with Apple?
They were granted the trademark in 2008, applied for it in 2000. Not sure which year counts.
I don't think paying 100 top lawyers is gonna be cheaper than paying Gradiente for a license anyway.
By the way, those able to read in Portuguese should check the following link:
http://www.ie.ufrj.br/desenvolvimen...possibilidade_para_a_inovacao_tecnologica.pdf
It's a paper analyzing the Unitron case, when a well-known Brazilian company produced a Mac clone (the "Mac 512") through perfectly-legal reverse engineering means (i.e., no Apple patent in Brazil).
However, strong pressure from the US government + corporate lobbying from competing companies in Brazil made the military government backtrack from its original decision to allow the company to produce such clones - it's a fascinating story.
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What "stuff"? A few iPhones by Foxconn?
Brazil is the 5th (or 6th, depending on who you ask) largest economy in the world; the US is not even its largest trading partner anymore.
On the other hand, Brazilian tourists are the ones spending the most money of all nationalities in places like NY.
So it's more like this nowadays, given the dire state of the US economy: Brazil asks, the US concedes - not the other way round.
Well dude,I understand you are a Brazilian and adrenaline runs high in your blood
Haha... Maybe Apple can pay back some of your debts to China before buying Brazil!!!
They're open to lawsuits and bankruptcy, good luck with that
Brazil is not a good market for tech anyways. Too much Socialist regulations and hurdles, and an anti-business climate.
Apple should not give in to that extortion. Apple should just leave Brazil completely, let them keep their Brazilian "IPHONE" thing. If Apple were to pay good money for trademarks, they should save the money for regional markets that are actually worth it. Not Brazil.
IGB Electronica SA has Apple by the proverbial sack and they know it. Apple's gonna pay a lot for this.
Yes mess, not in the context of current ownership but more that Apple always get's what it wants.
More like
2. Apple threatens lawsuits that could cost millions. Millions IGB doesn't have.
Brazil is not a good market for tech anyways. Too much Socialist regulations and hurdles, and an anti-business climate.
Apple should not give in to that extortion. Apple should just leave Brazil completely, let them keep their Brazilian "IPHONE" thing. If Apple were to pay good money for trademarks, they should save the money for regional markets that are actually worth it. Not Brazil.
Brazil is not a good market for tech anyways. Too much Socialist regulations and hurdles, and an anti-business climate.
Apple should not give in to that extortion. Apple should just leave Brazil completely, let them keep their Brazilian "IPHONE" thing. If Apple were to pay good money for trademarks, they should save the money for regional markets that are actually worth it. Not Brazil.
More like
1. IGB sets the price
2. Apple threatens lawsuits that could cost millions. Millions IGB doesn't have.
3. Apple barks
4. Apple pays less than expected by IGB
5. IGB is still happy with the millions they got.
just call it the apple phone.
No need for any lawsuits or anything. apple is know for the iphone and everyone will call it that anyway.
This company won't survive in the long term anyway.
What lawsuits are you talking about?
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Apple should leave Brazil, Apple should leave UK, Apple should leave Italy.
Do you people really read the things you write or it is an automated bot the one writing them when Apple loses any lawsuit areound the world?
Please Explain what lawsuit Apple could threaten with.
Forget it, for some posters, Apple must win at all costs... Shows how much credibility any of those guys really have (ie, none.). It's sad to see humans having to lower themselves to the rank of corporate puppet, even when they aren't on the payroll.
What lawsuits are you talking about?
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Apple should leave Brazil, Apple should leave UK, Apple should leave Italy.
Do you people really read the things you write or it is an automated bot the one writing them when Apple loses any lawsuit areound the world?