Proview Technology sues Apple in the United States because of misrepresentation during the acquisition of the iPad trademark with the Taiwanese sister company Proview Taipei. Apple would be in 2009 only 41.300 euro paid.
Proview Technology has the lawsuit, as it turns out now, last week against Apple, filed in Santa Clara County. According to Proview Technology, Apple has in the acquisition of the iPad trademark use of deception.
For the acquisition of the brand name, a newly formed shell company called IP Application Development or Ipad, would Apple be its role in the acquisition have obscured. The Chinese company, which was in financial difficulty and a so-called delisting on the stock exchange of hong Kong above the head, requires a yet unknown compensation from Apple.
In the indictment of Proview would be that lawyers the shell company of Apple several times have stated that the company is no competition for Proview would form. Also would the lawyers have to tell for which they have the trademark exactly needed.
Proview Taipei is just as Proview Technology is part of parent company, Proview International Holdings. The company sold in december 2009 through the detour to the right to the use of the name ‘iPad’ in ten countries, including China, to Apple. Proview Technology claims, however, that Proview Taipei is not the right to the iPad name in China.