Chinese toothpaste biz wants £50k from Apple over 'Snow Leopard' Apple may have finally settled its long-running IPAD beef with Proview, but the shiny toy maker is heading for yet another trademark showdown with a Chinese firm, this time over the Snow Leopard name. Jiangsu Snow Leopard Household Chemical, apparently a company with fingers in many pies, is claiming to have registered 42 …
I think it is shocking that Apple can profit so undeservedly from Jiangsu Snow Leopard Household Chemical's innovative works. It is clear to me that continued sales of Apple's Snow Leopard product would completely an irrevocably harm Jiangsu Snow Leopard Household Chemical's business. I for one recommend an emergency ban on the imports of all of Apple's infringing products, to stop them from flooding the market with infringing Snow Leopards during this critical juncture in the Snow Leopard market, in order to capture long-term market share, all the while irreparably harming Jiangsu Snow Leopard Household Chemical.
Surely not just a ban on importing them, a ban on exporting them too, so that the rest of the world can also benefit from the of the mighty Jiangsu Snow Leopard Household Chemical's innovative works without the interferance from the dastardly capatalists at Apple.
As a point of interest, do Apple actually (for some highly technical reason) actually export their stuff before importing it into China, or is is sold as locally made goods?
I completely agree. All household chemicals currently offered by Apple should be withdrawn from sale immediately! How dare they impinge on the market rightfully dominated by the well-respected Jiangsu Snow Leopard Household Chemical company by trading undeservedly on Jiangsu Snow Leopard Household Chemical's good name? Typical of Apple to think that they can push a company like Jiangsu Snow Leopard Household Chemical around, but the honourable Jiangsu Snow Leopard Household Chemical company will not just roll over and acquiesce. No! Mighty Jiangsu Snow Leopard Household Chemical will fight this, all the way to the highest international court if necessary, in order to ensure that justice is done, not least for the sake of the customers, employees, and shareholders of the splendid Jiangsu Snow Leopard Household Chemical company.
In other news; 2 Snow Leopards (Panthera uncia or Uncia uncia) have retained the legal firm of Vulture, Bluebottle and Tic (Lawyer lawyerus, Lawyer Scumbagius and Lawyer bloodsukerous) and are suing both Apple (fruitus crappyius) and Jiangsu Household Chemical (polluteicus maximus) for identity theft.
I hope this is the start of lots of litigation against Apple, since I'm not sure what apple have invented....
Nothing the iPad/iPhone does is new, or inovative...
it is simply an obvious progression from big & chunky to small and mobile....
I once carried a PDA and a Phone, and linked my PDA to my phone to send emails/browse the web,
years later I had a PDA Phone, it did all my PDA did, plus it did all my phone did. Apple just follow evolution, and got in first with the right technology, they invented nothing!
If they just released their tech and played nice, i'd be happy with them, but the litigation to stop competition is rediculous!
Ahha, great.. Now thats the best news i seen in years, thats why i sold ProView monitors.. high fives. Chinese can play this game to.. Who's next? Right, Snow Leopard.. hahah. Just wait till most words are owned.. then what? They own the Gods from Nike to God Eater.. lol.. i suppose some country will only have one option left and the wisdom for the cure to greed is found in the book of revelations. ahha, ah well if i cant amuse myself.. who can i bother with? :P
"However, Jiangsu CEO Tong Yu told Chinese paper the Modern Express that he believes Apple deliberately chose this path after having an official trademark application for the name in Chinese rejected in 2008."
Uhh... so his argument is that Apple, being aware of trademark issues, carefully avoided using the mark in order to ensure that they didn't infringe?
Doesn't sound like a winning argument to me. But then, I'm not filing suit in China...
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