Just pay them the money and then raise the price of Macs and other devices in China to pay for it.
they sold the rights and have a judge in their pocket imo. Apple had proof of the purchase and that company had years to make a claim. Instead they wait until apple has made billions from the device and then they cry foul.
Not in Apple's best interest to have conflicts in China..
PROVIEW claims Apple made an offer.
Doesn't make it true
I'd just pull the iPad from China. Sell it in surrounding markets and make sure the Chinese people know why this is happening.
they sold the rights and have a judge in their pocket imo. Apple had proof of the purchase and that company had years to make a claim. Instead they wait until apple has made billions from the device and then they cry foul.
Again - I ask - do you know this for a fact? Do you know when they began pursuing Apple with this? Do you know for a fact they didn't contact Apple before it went to the courts?
Or are you just making assumptions. Sincerely asking.
It's a reasonable explantion that fits the available facts. Do you have an alternate theory? If so:
Why would Proview go back and review existing agreements with Apple, unless it were to find a loophole? And why would they do this unless the hope was to extract HUGE amounts of money? And why would they have expectations of making HUGE amounts of money unless the iPad was already successful?
It's also entirely possible that the parent corporation, after discovering that Apple was producing something called the iPad did all that back research and discovered something was amiss. You know - it wasn't APPLE that bought the original trademark. They did it via a dummy corporation to save some money (obviously).
Again - I am not weighing in on judgement of who did what and who is to blame. My original comment was directed at someone who just said that the corporation should just hand over their trademark because APPLE made the name famous. That's just a ridiculous statement.
b) Look to move manufacturing.
Proview is pushing for a country-wide import and export ban on the iPad, presumably if Apple does not pay for the trademark. In theory, this sanction would force a move of manufacturing out of China. Significant infrastructure and expertise has been built up to supply iPhones and iPads from China. This would take time to rebuild elsewhere. As Apple often can hardly make enough units to meet demand, I suspect Samsung would be happy to contract for any spare specialized manufacturing capacity left behind by Apple to make more and better clones.
Because blaming an entire country for the ****ness of a few is such a good idea, and not racist in any way.
China has WAY more over the US than the other way around.
Hand it over, your not playing fair [ stamps feet ]
If you had that trademark and realised you screwed up in selling it for 55K and thought there possibly might be loophole to get $2b what would you do?
If I were apple. I'd say well We just won't
a) Sell it in china.
b) Look to move manufacturing.
See how quickly the court settles it then.
*Yes I realise this is just as nieve and stampsy feet.
Not in Apple's best interest to have conflicts in China..
Sincerely asking, Sam: Do you not know what the o in "imo" means?Again - I ask - do you know this for a fact? Do you know when they began pursuing Apple with this? Do you know for a fact they didn't contact Apple before it went to the courts?
Or are you just making assumptions. Sincerely asking.
Your tone belies your words.It's also entirely possible that the parent corporation, after discovering that Apple was producing something called the iPad did all that back research and discovered something was amiss. You know - it wasn't APPLE that bought the original trademark. They did it via a dummy corporation to save some money (obviously).
Again - I am not weighing in on judgement of who did what and who is to blame. My original comment was directed at someone who just said that the corporation should just hand over their trademark because APPLE made the name famous. That's just a ridiculous statement.
Do you know they didn't pursue it earlier? For a fact?
And regardless - like I said - if they (still) own the trademark - then they shouldn't just hand it over BECAUSE Apple made the name famous.
It's also entirely possible that the parent corporation, after discovering that Apple was producing something called the iPad did all that back research and discovered something was amiss. You know - it wasn't APPLE that bought the original trademark. They did it via a dummy corporation to save some money (obviously).
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No they should hand it over because they sold it to Apple.
They should just hand it over. Apple is the reason the trademark is popular anyhow. Without Apple actually making an "iPad" no one would even know what it was.