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Lessons to Be Learned from Apple Losing Their Apple Trademark for a Game Console in China

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(By You Yunting) In the end of 2013, the Beijing Higher People’s Court rejected Apple Inc.’s trademark opposition towards “苹果” trademark (read “Pingguo” in Chinese and referring to “Apple” in English) under Class 28 for game console against Zhongshan Readboy Electronics Co., Ltd. Thereafter, Apple Inc. has gone through 4 procedures, including the Trademark Office’s opposition proceeding, TRAB’s review procedure and two administrative actions and ultimately lost the “苹果” trademark under Class 28 for game console. The following are abstracts from the judgment of the final trial and our comments.

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Why Apple Failed to Stop the Application of Apple-Trademark by Others?

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(By Luo Yanjie) Two companies with a great gap in their relative strength have been seen battling with each other over the trademark of an apple image; they are the globally known Apple Inc. and a fruit food making company in Zhuang He, a small city of China. At the end of the battle, the small company won the fight, Dalian Chenji Guopin Co., Ltd. (the “Chenji”) was supported by the authority in the dispute lasted for 5 years. The dispute was triggered by Chenji’s design, which consists two apples overlapped together, and the Chinese characters “陈记” written on them. In examining the mark, we can find the apple resembles that of Apple’s, which appears to have been bitten by someone. For this reason, Apple filed the trademark opposition with the trademark office.

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No “iPad” Chinese trademark right for Apple after payment in the transaction, and our analysis.

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Highlight:Apple gets involved in the litigation against a Chinese company for the ownership of iPad trademark, which Apple has claimed the property from purchase. However, such conflict could be averted if proper preparation has been done before the trademark transaction.

Recently, the trademark conflict over “iPad” initiated by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL, the “Apple”) against Proview Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (the “Proview”) was heard for the third time on Shenzhen Intermediate Court. In the trial, Apple affirmed it owns the global trademark right of “iPad”, which was stroke back by Proview that such right in mainland China is exclusively held by Proview and the claimed transaction of Apple for the acquisition of such right has no permission or authorization from it, furthermore, Apple was also accused of its malicious purchase of the registered “iPad” behind the IP Application Development Company worldwide.

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Can Apple Register iMessage trademark in China?

HIGHLIGHTS: Apple recently applied trademark registration for its “iMessage” in U.S., and no doubt such registration will also be conducted in China soon. Bridge IP Commentary will analyse the prospect for such registration in China and also introduce the related local trademark laws and regulations. 

It is reported that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) filed three different trademark applications for “iMessage” with the USPTO recently. iMessage is Apple’s newly developed instant messaging software basing on mobile internet devices.

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