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    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.

    — Nathan Olivarez-Giles
    Published: Feb. 24, 2012
    Sources: Santa Clara Superior Court
    Credits: Nathan Olivarez-Giles, Scott Wilson
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