You seems to be well versed on IP rights. Oh then it is good Apple is not a regular word there can be trademarked.....
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Apple Faces Trademark Battle to Use 'Vision Pro' Name in China
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Apple will either come up with an agreement and pay a bunch of money for the rights; or just rename it prior to launch.
Zero chance this ends up in court. Huawei is in kahoots with the chinese govt and in china, it's their house their rules. Plus it's pretty black and white in huawei's favour in this case anyway.
Zero chance this ends up in court. Huawei is in kahoots with the chinese govt and in china, it's their house their rules. Plus it's pretty black and white in huawei's favour in this case anyway.
That is why the company is named "Apple Computer, Inc.". Combining 2 words makes it trademarkable for a market-segment, which makes it unique enough.
"Vision Pro" could pose a problem but the name is "Apple Vision" with a 'pro' version, so that should be OK. But this is China ...
No problem. Liquid Vision will do just fine. It's even less ridiculous that Liquid Retina.
So, "Virgin" or "Target" is not trademark able? You go try to trademark a company/service/product name like Virgin, Disney, Target, SAMS, Google, Apple etc and your IP lawyers will say not possible already taken. note the small (R) as registered trademark.
There is a difference between trademarks and copyrights and you can trademark any word single or multiple (if not already used) as a trademark for your company/service/product. Copyright a word is a different thing. By the way you could try to trademark the same names in China and see far you get. IP right are pretty tough in China, we have a few trade names there.
Sorry for the late reply, i was in Disneyland Paris ® (no joke)
Disney is a name, not a generic word.
Google is not a generic word, the generic word is 'Googol'
Its not 'Disney' but 'The Walt Disney Company'
Its not 'Virgin' but 'Virgin Galactic'
Its not 'Target' but 'Target Corporation'
Now, they will sue you into oblivion for sure but depending on the case it's not always a sure win.
Just found out there is an Apple Bank in NY, Apple should try to buy them.
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This argument makes sense in English-speaking countries, but is it a regular word in Chinese?
Also the potential dispute is about the phrase “Vision Pro” not just the word “Vision”.
The Chinese word is not important, it's about the English name.
Well, that depends on Apple's trademark which probably reads "Apple Vision", the first model is then the 'pro' version.
Same for Huawei which uses 'Vision' for several products, it then adds a 'Pro' or 'S' or whatever to the name. Like this "Huawei Vision S" TV
HUAWEI Global
Explore the latest technologies in HUAWEI smartphone, wearable, PC, tablet, audio
consumer.huawei.com
So normally I don't see a problem at all, both Apple and Huawei can use the Vision name as they do now. The only unknown factor is China.