Apple is no
longer the only company that can sell 'iPhones ' in China. The electronics
giant lost its exclusive rights to the "iPhone" trademark in the,
with Chinese courts siding against it in a recent legal proceeding.
Apple who
filed a trademark suit against Beijing-based leather wallet and accessory maker
Xintong Tiandi Technology, found itself on the losing end according to local
publication, Legal Daily. Xintong Tiandi has for years been selling leather
products branded "IPHONE", with Apple unsuccessfully seeking to stop
this.
The Municipal
Court's decision resonated a 2013 judgement from the Chinese trademark
authourity(www.chinatrademarkoffice.com)
,
with its reason being that Apple's iPhones were not sold in mainland China
until 2009 and the company could not prove that the "IPHONE"
trademark was widely known before Xintong Tiandi took it up in 2007.
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