Proview sounds like an annoying little sister that always cries about everything.
Or annoying little brother
Honestly Proview, this is just getting embarrassing.
The expression: "Grasping at Straws" comes to mind (as does "frivolous litigation".)
Proview sounds like an annoying little sister that always cries about everything.
This very ordeal is a dispute of IPAD and iPad.
I hope that proview is sucessful in stopping exports of the Ipad from China because this means that Apple will stop producing them in China. I would rather see them produced in the U.S. but i doubt that will happen anytime soon.
Wow, that is incredibly conclusive. How could Proview even think it has a case? Even more WOW, how could the chinese courts side with them!?!
That would be a boost to the U.S. economy, but wouldn't that just drive product prices far higher than they already are?
And the shameless hypocrisy continues. Please Apple just pay what you should pay in good faith already. You try to sue Samsung and others at every turn, but you blatantly use someone else's trademark and for whatever reason, you feel you shouldn't have to pay. But everyone else owes you everything right? I've got a nice tall glass of ethics and morals on the table for you. Come take nice big soul cleansing swig.
Absolutely despicable and shameless.
And the shameless hypocrisy continues. Please Apple just pay what you should pay in good faith already. You try to sue Samsung and others at every turn, but you blatantly use someone else's trademark and for whatever reason, you feel you shouldn't have to pay. But everyone else owes you everything right? I've got a nice tall glass of ethics and morals on the table for you. Come take nice big soul cleansing swig.
Absolutely despicable and shameless.
And the shameless hypocrisy continues. Please Apple just pay what you should pay in good faith already. You try to sue Samsung and others at every turn, but you blatantly use someone else's trademark and for whatever reason, you feel you shouldn't have to pay. But everyone else owes you everything right? I've got a nice tall glass of ethics and morals on the table for you. Come take nice big soul cleansing swig.
Absolutely despicable and shameless.
It has already been estimated that if iPads were made in the U.S. the price increase wouldn't be substantial. I believe the article that I had read said that the price increase would only be about $60 per iPad.
Sneaky, sneaky Apple!!
Frankly, it was deceptive- Whether it was fair game or not, or more importantly in this case- legal or not- is another question entirely. But I would be upset if I thought I was dealing with a small company and it turned out to be a famous and huge international corporation, that's for sure.
You are missing some pretty fundamental differences.So this common practice is deception... and yet despite what the Hong Kong court decided in Apples favor, its NOT deception for Proview (the parent company) to sell the trademark and state that it included China, then have their own subsidiary (also called Proview) magically disagree, two years later, with the deal the parent company made. I see![]()
(I wonder if the name was coincidence, or an intended Apple rip-off, albeit a legal one? I believe Proview trademarked iPAD in 1998, same year the iMac came outfirst of Apple's iName products. And ProView's iPAD all-in-one, as Peace posted above, looks suspiciously like that first iMac too! Look at the holes and handles. None of which seems very relevant today, but it would be ironic if the whole thing started with Proview trying to make a knock-off iMac and get it confused on both style and name with the real thing!)
How is it deceptive and illegal? This happens all the time and has never been outlawed in US. Companies are allowed to set up shell companies to buy products.
The reason they do this is because many companies would jack up prices if they knew what company was going to buy the stuff. Also, how can companies protect themselves from getting out in the public if it was told in the news that a big company has bought something?
A few courts sided with Proview on issuing injunctions in minor towns but the most recent one sided with Apple about an injunction country-wide.
Injunctions are not proof that Proview has the trademarks, it's just the first step before going to the full trial that'll determine the true ownerships of those trademarks.
It'll be a few months before the main court decides the answer and right now Proview is doing everything it can to force a settlement.
And the shameless hypocrisy continues. Please Apple just pay what you should pay in good faith already. You try to sue Samsung and others at every turn, but you blatantly use someone else's trademark and for whatever reason, you feel you shouldn't have to pay. But everyone else owes you everything right? I've got a nice tall glass of ethics and morals on the table for you. Come take nice big soul cleansing swig.
Absolutely despicable and shameless.
Apple bought the trademark from Fujitsu
well in the UK apple will have a hard time having a tv named itv
Please re-read my comment. I am not claiming it is illegal. However, if you can't see how this is deceptive, then you need to go back and take an ethics class. Now, if that deception is warranted, is again, another issue entirely.