China official says Proview owns iPad trademark

A debt-laden Chinese computer firm embroiled in a copyright row with Apple over the iPad name on Friday threatened to sue the technology giant in the United States for $2 billion.Proview Technology (Shenzhen) says it owns the Chinese rights for the "iPad" trademark and its lawyers say they are seeking to prevent Apple from shipping the iconic tablet computers into and out of China -- one of the US company's biggest markets.Apple last year took the firm to a Chinese court, claiming trademark infringement, but the court unexpectedly rejected the case over lack of evidence.

A debt-laden Chinese computer firm embroiled in a copyright row with Apple over the iPad name on Friday threatened to sue the technology giant in the United States for $2 billion.Proview Technology (Shenzhen) says it owns the Chinese rights for the "iPad" trademark and its lawyers say they are seeking to prevent Apple from shipping the iconic tablet computers into and out of China -- one of the US company's biggest markets.Apple last year took the firm to a Chinese court, claiming trademark infringement, but the court unexpectedly rejected the case over lack of evidence.

Proview Technology, which is battling Apple in a Chinese court over the iPad trademark, is the rightful owner of that mark, a senior official with the State Administration said.

A trademark dispute between Apple and a Chinese computer maker moved to Shanghai, where the debt-laden plaintiff is seeking to stop the sale of the US giant's iconic iPad.Proview Technology (Shenzhen) says it owns the Chinese rights to the "iPad" name and is asking the Shanghai court to order Apple to stop selling its trendy tablet computer in the city, where it has three stores.

Apple appeared in a Shanghai court on Wednesday, accused by a Chinese firm of copying software used for the "Siri" personal assistant on its hugely popular iPhones.

A Chinese firm involved in a trademark row with Apple over the iPad name is preparing for talks with the US technology giant, the Chinese firm's lawyer said Tuesday, raising hopes for a settlement.Electronics firm Proview Technology (Shenzhen) says it owns the Chinese rights to the "iPad" trademark and has sought to block sales of Apple's iconic tablet computer in China as well as imports and exports of the device.

Despite suffering a setback in a Shanghai court, a financially-strapped Chinese company has reportedly opened up a US front in its legal war with Apple over the iPad trademark.Proview Technology filed a civil suit last week against Apple in a California state court near the iPad maker's headquarters in Silicon Valley, according to the Wall Street Journal.The suit accuses Apple of acting with "oppression, fraud and/or malice" when it used an innocuously-named subsidiary to buy the iPad trademark from Proview in December of 2009, according to the Journal.