Apple's iPads taken off the shelves in north China

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Chinese officials confiscated Apple's iPads from shops last week as Proview Technology began to assert its trademark rights


Earlier this week, China Daily reported officials from the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (AIC) took some of Apple's iPads from reseller's shelves in the Xinhua district of Shijiazhuang, the largest city in Hebei province.

This is the latest development in a long running dispute between Apple and Shenzhen-based Proview Technology. In 2001, Proview Technology registered the iPad mark in China. A year earlier, parent company Proview in Taipei had registered the mark across Asia and Europe. Apple bought the iPad marks through a UK company for $55,000 from Proview Taipei. That agreement stated that the Chinese mark was included, but the owner of the mark, Proview Shenzhen, was not party to the agreement.

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