Apple accused of fraud by China’s Proview in iPad dispute

China’s Proview Tech­no­lo­gies has sued Apple Inc. in the U.S. for al­legedly ask­ing hired law­yers to form a com­pany in Lon­don with the sole pur­pose of pur­chas­ing the trade­mark for the “iPad” for Apple in 2009.

Proview says in the com­plaint that the com­pany, IP Ap­plic­a­tion De­vel­op­ment, nev­er told it that it was act­ing on Apple’s be­hald or that it wanted the iPad trade­mark as the product name for a new tab­let com­puter.