Apple is in the wars again with a Taiwanese-owned company Proview threatening to sue Apple for an alleged trademark infringement of the name of Apple's tablet computer, iPad. Proview made an unsuccessful attempt almost a decade ago to market a tablet computer it called I-Pad and it registered trademarks for the IPAD name in the EU, China, Mexico, South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam between 2000 and 2004. Enter Apple.
It's not the first time that Apple has been in trouble over the iPad name. Earlier this year, it was fighting Fujitsu which claimed that it owned the US rights to the name iPad, claiming it had developed a handheld stock monitoring computing device used in supermarkets in 2003 with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and VoIP support with the name. The legal right to the name was transferred from Fujitsu to Apple in March.
And Motorola is suing Apple for allegedly breaching 18 of its patents linking to antenna design.
But then, the world of high tech innovation seems to invite this kind of stuff. And Apple is no stranger to it either. According to this report, Apple is looking to sue the Apple Peel, which seeks to deliver wireless mobile broadband to an iPod Touch and effectively turn the iPod Touch into a make shift iPhone. Apple says The Peel doesn't have the license.
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