Chinese Customs Tells Proview That Ban of iPad Exports Would be Difficult

[Gasu E.]

No, I don't think it's right that Apple gets to bully its way through

Apple has a legal position, Proview has another, and Apple is willing to work it through the courts. Proview tried to bypass the courts by trying to get a government agency to block billions of dollars in export business. I don't see where Apple is bullying here.

 

[kdarling]

Proview tried to bypass the courts by trying to get a government agency to block billions of dollars in export business.

Apple has done almost exactly the same thing.

They have bypassed the US court system by trying to get the ITC, a government trade agency, to block competing imports.

E.g. the recent Apple v HTC case.

(They're not alone; going to the ITC is a popular, quick way to get a block and/or force a negotiation.)

 

[jwm2]

Ok so china gets to make cheap fake knockoffs of our products, pirate all the media they want and flood the market with counterfeit products but an american company can't use a name the rest of the world recognizes as an apple trademark? I say the hell with china, keep on trucking and move your manufacturing facilities to another country. That'll show em.

 

[pmjoe]

Gentile reminder of what a corrupt, communist country China is.

While this may have lot to do with corruption, communism has nothing to do with it.

"The customs have told us that it will be difficult to implement a ban because many Chinese consumers love Apple products. The sheer size of the market is very big."

Someone from the government tells some little company they can't protect their capitalist interests because it's not in the people's nor the country's best interests. Definitions of communism are sometimes a little muddy, but that quote fits it to a T.

 

[jlc1978]

"The customs have told us that it will be difficult to implement a ban because many Chinese consumers love Apple products. The sheer size of the market is very big."

Someone from the government tells some little company they can't protect their capitalist interests because it's not in the people's nor the country's best interests. Definitions of communism are sometimes a little muddy, but that quote fits it to a T.

Hardly - corrupt? Possibly. Facing political reality? Certainly, and something that happens in many countries regardless of the economic system. Communism? Not even close.

China is simply ensuring it's biggest companies continue businesses usual.

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People aren't going to confuse the giant Apple corporation with tiny European coffee shops, or NYC recycling campaigns, or little childcare centers either... but that doesn't stop Apple's lawyers from attacking anything or anybody with even a vaguely similar looking apple in their logo.

What's good for the goose, is good for the gander.

Either Apple was misled by one company, or they missed some details. Either way, it has to be worked out fairly.

True, but Apple is protecting their logo; which is a recognizable identifier of their company. A place can be Apple Annie's but would have problems using a logo similar to Apple's. I doubt they could even register it.

OTOH, names scan be used on products where they are not in the same product family - hence the Fusion car and razor.

 

[JAT]

So citizens everywhere are just as indifferent to actual justice being delivered in their name as the Americans and the Chinese? I figured at least one country, somewhere, had the decency to take enormous sums of money out of the justice equation. Silly me.

Jer. 10:23

 

[Verita]

Jer. 10:23

Jer. 17:9