Chinese Authorities and Retailers Removing iPads from Sale Over Trademark Issues?

[nagromme]

Is Foxconn building factories anywhere else? I'm not really following this news.... if so, then I would suggest that Apple - with Foxconn as a partner - has already identified their vulnerability and is moving to address the problem.

Yes, Foxconn and Apple's plans to make iPads in Brazil seem to be progressing:
http://www.appleinsider.com/article...ax_breaks_looks_to_start_ipad_production.html

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

Let's clear something out:

China's market is way more powerful and needed than Apple or even the US market.

Anybody who's not an ignorant Internet ****, who doesn't know ish about business, knows this.

In fact the recent Apple strategy, which board of investors didn't appoint the uncharismatic ex-director of production Tim Cook as CEO for nothing, is all about exponential growth with the introduction of their product to mainstream market, especially in new industrialized countries such as Brazil or China where the middle-class are expected to be larger than of the whole western countries by 2014.

Apple needs a stable relationship with China but let's not forget that they only introduced their products for the first time in this market with the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2.

Hey!! Who industrialized china?! We helped them in every way and they screw us! We paid for their rise, loaned them money and helped them build a industry. We can also take it away from them, them what?

 

[snberk103]

Hey!! Who industrialized china?! We helped them in every way and they screw us! We paid for their rise, loaned them money and helped them build a industry. We can also take it away from them, them what?

There's another interpretation... that it was "forced" on China against their will (look up gun-boat diplomacy) and that it's taken them about a century to get rid of the last of the imposed colonial artifacts. In which case the current situation would be more along the lines of "revenge" and not "gratitude".

What we sometimes forget is that the Chinese (among others) think in the long-term. We forget that for thousands of years China was the pre-eminent culture on the planet, and that the last couple of centuries of "western" superiority are merely a historical blip that China is correcting.

 

[ConceptVBS]

made in china

Your iphone and iPad is the same way.

 

[Conflagrare]

Expired trademark

http://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/ipad-proview.jpeg

Doesn't this say that the trademark expired last year, June 20, 2011???

 

[apolloa]

This is very clever business this is. The company that does own the iPad name is just going to get a bucket load of money for Apple because it knows they want that name. And the courts seems to be on there side. Clever move.

Then again Apple should have checked more carefully in the first place but no one is immune to begin scammed or mislead I guess?

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Hey!! Who industrialized china?! We helped them in every way and they screw us! We paid for their rise, loaned them money and helped them build a industry. We can also take it away from them, them what?

They'll either carry on or start a war with America I guess? And that would most likely destroy the entire planet....

Doesn't Apple say Think Different?

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

This is very clever business this is. The company that does own the iPad name is just going to get a bucket load of money for Apple because it knows they want that name. And the courts seems to be on there side. Clever move.

Then again Apple should have checked more carefully in the first place but no one is immune to begin scammed or mislead I guess?

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They'll either carry on or start a war with America I guess? And that would most likely destroy the entire planet....

Doesn't Apple say Think Different?

...and that would be their last war.

 

[snberk103]

...and that would be their last war.

Nah.... it won't be the last world war.... it's just that the next world war will be fought with stones and clubs...

 

[tjxism]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A405 Safari/7534.48.3)

Many refers to the BMW case which is such a shame for China(and I am Chinese). But in that case the copycat car is no similar to X5 except the layout design. I can hardly imagine any one would mistakenly buy the funny 'two ring' logoed (obviously copying Audi) would think he's bought an X5.

China has very bad reputation in IP, but it doesn't mean China has absolutely no law covering it. Layout design is not well protected but trade mark infringement is a much simpler case. I don't think Apple should avoid the punishment this time.

Microsoft may be the biggest victim of Chinese IP loophole. It is quite difficult to find a legal copy of Windows installed on a personal computer. It is mostly ignored by the government. The reason is quite simple: the software is overpriced for most Chinese personal users. I grew up using many illegal copied softwares. But as now I have a proper salary, I am proud to say every thing installed on my MacBook is legal.

 

[C00rDiNaT0r]

I doubt this can affect Apple's earnings significantly. The grey market can handle a big chunk of the demand in China. The Chinese people can also purchase theirs when traveling. Though there might be even more scalpers globally as a result.