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Has China taken another Bite out of the Apple?

By Ai-Leen Lim | Posted on June 30, 2016

After locking horns with a local Chinese company for six years over the IPHONE trademark, Apple took a drubbing after last month’s decision by the Beijing High People’s Court. Apple applied for the “IPHONE” trademark for software and hardware (Class 9) in China in 2002. A Chinese company, called Xingtong Tiandi, which makes leather goods, is...

Tags: Apple, China. trademark law, IPHONE

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