Apple Offers Proview $16 Million for iPad Trademark?
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I don't get how a company accuses the other of stealing proprietary ideas may that be in the form of patents or copy rights over an item or name and wait years for them to claim their case and the courts don't take that into consideration that it's obvious they waited till lots of money was made by the accused company so then they'll sue. To me that's sounds like using the courts to commit extortion. If you wait too long to sue then the damage that you claim couldn't have been that severe since there was no urgency on the matter. It's just my opinion.

Let them burn. They got paid what they thought was a fair price 3 years ago, and now they think it's Apple responsibility to get them out of it? Drag the legal proceedings out until they're liquidated, case closed.

All of those nomenclatures ixxx are just funny afterthoughts. Apple has its gold mine and they don's even use it. From here on, ghey should name whatever they make Applexxx and be done with that.

Actually, if I was Apple I'd take a different tact. Simply renaming the name of the iPad (in China only) to something like "iThingie", pointing out to everyone that it's a ridiculous position, that it's hurting China's image and making them a laughingstock of the world, while not making a hill of beans to Apple itself. Apple already has the rights to the iPad name throughout the rest of the world. If they have to change the name in China... as they say, "An apple by any other name, tastes as sweet" (to completely screw up famous quotes!)

As somebody said a few days ago, in China, call it "the tablet formerly known as iPad."

As usual a company in trouble will do everything it can to sue another company to get themselves out of trouble. The name is Apple's! Suck it up and move on. Proview sold it outright. Apple used a third party to maintain their annimimity for just this reason.

If you want to take advantage of China's cheap labor and it's growing economy, you have to play by their rules. $16M is chump change for apple.

Why are they even dealing with proview ... They secured the rights end of story.. Why the Chinese can't understand this I don't know.. They have some nerve to bleat on about ip infringement when china is awash with ip infringed products !