Chinese Banks Reportedly Claim to Own iPad Trademark

It was just a matter of time before this elephant stomped into the room. The big Chinese banks that Proview Technology Shezhen – the Chinese company that claims to own the iPad trademark – owes a pot full of money to claim they relieved Proview of the Chinese rights to the mark in early 2009 when they seized its assets. That was nine months before Apple says it bought the trademark off a supposedly authorized Proview (Taiwan). This message comes from a consulting company called Hejun Vanguard Group that claimed to speak for the banks in an e-mail to press.

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