Big Apple iPad Trouble in China
A Chinese company that says it owns the rights to the iPad trademark has sued Apple and asked for a court order barring the company from selling the device in China.
What more, Apple is about to be hit by a $38 million fine for continuing to use the name in China. Four years before Apple introduced the iPad in 2010, it bought the trademark “iPad” from Proview Electronics, a Taiwanese display manufacturer, but the rights to use the name were not to extend into China. That didn’t stop Apple, though, so now the company will have to deal with this very large and very expensive headache.