唯冠在加利福尼亚把苹果告上法庭 - 诈骗罪

黑山老妖

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/0 ... the-ipad-trademark/

唯冠说当初苹果购买iPad商标的时候使用了诈骗手段。

• First, Apple contacted a company in Britain called Farncombe International. The managing director of this company is Graham Robinson.

• Farncombe International created a company from scratch, called IP Application Development Limited (see where this is going?) to negotiate the purchase of the iPad trademark.

• About a month before the launch of the iPad, Robinson contacted Proview under the name Jonathan Hargreaves, wanting to buy the trademark IPAD from them.

• Proview asked Robinson/Hargreaves why his company wanted the trademark. His email reply, according to Proview: “is an abbreviation for the company name IP Application Development Limited”.

• Proview pressed Robinson/Hargreaves, asking what was the nature of his company’s business. To that, he replied: [IPAD Ltd.] is a newly formed company, and I’m sure you can understand that we are not ready to publicise what the company’s business is, since we have not yet made any public announcements.

• Then he added: “As I said in my last message, I can assure you that the company will not compete with Proview.”

看着够dodgy的。唉，教主怎么能做出这种事来呢。

苹果对此并不否认。苹果发了一个公共说：

We bought Proview’s worldwide rights to the iPad trademark in 10 different countries several years ago. Proview refuses to honour their agreement with Apple in China and a Hong Kong court has sided with Apple in this matter. Our case is still pending in mainland China.

jasonliu234

这案子有意思

苹果没有亲手 建立IP application的公司。这个公司是另外一个公司创立的。

所以表面上，苹果只是从IP application 买下了ipad商标。

指责苹果是否有意低价买入ipad商标。

还需要证明，苹果和 ip application 之间究竟什么关系。

红烧鸡翅

又来了

zn7726

美国人会帮美国人的. 围观难赢, 表个姿态而已. 就好像samsung在美国告iphone一样, 属于行为艺术

黑山老妖

这个官司就是PR，其实获胜的机会我看是零。