Shanghai: Apple Inc's trademark battle moves to one of China's richest cities on Wednesday when a Shanghai court will deliberate a request by troubled technology company Proview to halt the sale of iPads across the city. Proview Technology (Shenzhen) claims it owns the iPad trademark in China and a Shenzhen court ruled in its favour last December. Proview has since launched a multi-pronged approach to get Apple's iPads off the...
05:49 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Beijing: A dispute over the name of the iPad may not be the only trademark problem facing Apple Inc in China. At least 39 Chinese companies and individuals have attempted to register the names iPhone or iPad as trademarks for products as varied as hiking shoes, veterinary drugs and diapers, the China Daily newspaper reported. The newspaper says six manufacturers, including a flashlight manufacturer, got as far as preliminary approval...
02:32 PM, Feb 20, 2012
Taipei: Proview Technology, the Chinese firm embroiled in a legal battle with Apple Inc over the iPad name, said on Wednesday that Chinese customs authorities had told it that any ban on the import or export of the popular tablet PCs would be difficult to impose due to the sheer size of the market. On Tuesday, lawyers representing Proview Technology (Shenzhen) Co Ltd said the company would seek a ban...
02:47 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Beijing: China has ordered a probe into the alleged iPad trademark infringement dispute between US-based gadgets maker Apple and a local company. The probe came over a month after a Chinese court rejected Apple's lawsuit accusing a local company of infringing on trademark "iPad" that could have resulted in it's having to sell it under a new name or cough up USD 1.6 billion. The Municipal Intermediate People's Court in...
12:23 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Toronto: Research In Motion, still smarting over having to change the name of its yet-to-come operating system, faces a similar trademark challenge to its popular instant-messaging service BlackBerry Messenger. The service, which allows BlackBerry users to send each other text and multimedia files and see when they are delivered and read, is widely known and even promoted by RIM via the shorthand BBM. That has proven an encumbrance to BBM...
10:54 AM, Dec 24, 2011
Washington: The word 'tweet' is to become a registered trademark of the micro-blogging website Twitter, company executives have said. They said Twitter had resolved a long-running legal dispute over ownership of the term by US advertising company Twittad which allows a network of 27,000 Twitter users to be paid to tweet advertisements from their private accounts. "We've arrived at a resolution with Twittad that recognises consistent use of Tweet while...
02:20 PM, Oct 12, 2011
San Francisco: Apple Inc has sued Amazon.com Inc in a bid to stop the online retailer from improperly using Apple's App Store trademark, according to a court filing. The lawsuit, filed in a California federal court late last week, said Amazon has improperly used Apple's App Store mark to solicit software developers throughout the United States. Apple has applied to register the App Store trademark in the United States, a...
11:09 AM, Mar 22, 2011
Moscow: The daughter of the world's first cosmonaut, Yury Gagarin, has filed an application to register in the name of her father a trademark titled "Yury Alexeyevich Gagarin". "I do not consider it shameful given that everyone is making money on Gagarin's name. Why can't his family do it?" head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Anatoly Perminov said. Gagarin's youngest daughter, Yulia, filed the application in the Russian Federal Service...
11:25 AM, Feb 01, 2011
New York: Facebook has moved a step closer toward trademarking the word "face" - at least in certain contexts. The company's 2005 application with the US Patent and Trademark Office received a "notice of allowance" Tuesday, which means Facebook now has six months to show that it uses the trademark and pay a $ 100 fee, said Cynthia Lynch, administrator for trademark policy and procedure at the agency. Or, it...
01:06 PM, Nov 25, 2010
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11:15 PM, Mar 15, 2007
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10:44 AM, Jan 27, 2007
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