Professor of Law (Practice) David Llewelyn shared his views on the Apple Inc.'s dispute over the IPad name in China. He commented that the problems seemed to have arisen because of the drafting of the agreement. Proview obtained the trademark in China in 2001 for a desktop terminal with touch-screen display called the Internet Personal Access Device, or IPAD, that the company developed starting in 1998. ?This doesn't seem to be a case in which a Chinese company has registered a foreign company's trademark in China to try and blackmail them into buying them off,? said Prof Llewelyn, the author of ?Invisible Gold in Asia: Creating Wealth Through Intellectual Property.?
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