Apple loses exclusive 'iPhone' trademark in China

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Why does China get away with copyright infringement every time?

"it's cool you have these products, but we're going to copy them and use your name and you won't be able to do shit about it"
Its not what happened here though. In fact it was the opposite.
 
A trademark is not effective worldwide but only in registered areas, which can but must not mean worldwide. For the rest, Apple failed to conclusively prove that iPhone was a well known brand in China before 2009 because before that it didn't neither advertise nor sell the iPhone in China. The leather company in return has been using the name since 2007.
While the Apple brand was well known and established, the iPhone brand was not.

The rest is law, this is nothing about common sense.

Its not what happened here though. In fact it was the opposite.
Nono, they chose this name because it was attached to Apple, the intent is clear. But that doesn't make it illegal. A fact companies like to remind us of all the time.
 
China don't care

Can't wait for the GAF defenders saying there's nothing wrong with ripping off someone else's brand and creations

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-loses-china-trademark-case-100246471.html
lol are you new to FTO world or something? That happens all the time. Hell, Halliburton did that recently with a BASF chemical product simply because their patent using said BASF product got granted before BASF. So BASF can't even sell their own product at the moment.

It happens. This is why you always dot your i's cross your t's, as the saying goes.
 
China is a lot more inclined to do this because the Iphone is basically an import and thus this is Chinese citizens using a lot of their labor money on U.S products.

That has to piss someone off eventually. I expect more hollywood bans down the line.
 
A trademark is not effective worldwide but only in registered areas, which can but must not mean worldwide. For the rest, Apple failed to conclusively prove that iPhone was a well known brand in China before 2009 because before that it didn't neither advertise nor sell the iPhone in China. The leather company in return has been using the name since 2007.
While the Apple brand was well known and established, the iPhone brand was not.

The rest is law, this is nothing about common sense.


Nono, they chose this name because it was attached to Apple, the intent is clear. But that doesn't make it illegal. A fact companies like to remind us of all the time.

I know. They still got the trademark before Apple did, and Apple is not exactly a stranger to forcibly remove/"steal" trademarks before other companies.
 
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