Chinese Tablet Maker May Sue Apple Over iPad
Drama, drama, drama.
There's a lot of legal debates surround the name iPad and whether Apple should be allowed to use it at all. Given that Fujitsu applied for the trademark first and Mag-Tek actually owns it already, the fact that Apple has also applied for it makes the situation even messier.
However, Apple could have even bigger problems than a legal battle over a really lame and annoying name (remind me, why is everyone desperate to sell an 'iPad' anyway?); the company could soon come under fire for the design of the iPad tablet too.
PCWorld reports that Shenzhen Great Loong Brother Industrial started selling its P88 tablet last year and is not ruling out a lawsuit against Apple. A company representative named only as Wu said that despite the company being known for knock-off or 'shanzhai' phones, they were first with their tablet, which bears a striking resemblance to the iPad. "For this thing we are not shanzhai, because we were first," he said.
While the P88 and the iPad look alike, the former is a 10.2-inch Windows device and weighs considerably more than the iPad. It also has doesn't have the battery life that the iPad claims to have and is a lot thicker.
That said, the two devices both have screens with a large, black bezel and are touchscreen devices of a similar size.
Do you think Shenzhen Great Loong Brother Industrial has a case? Let us know in the comments below!
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it looks vaguely similar, but there's only so much you can do with a tablet!
The iPad may well be a rip off of the P88, but from what I've seen these types of cases are very difficult to prove in court, and with Apple's money and resources such a lawsuit could never make it.
I'd love to see Apple taken to the cleaners, but the most this company could achive is an iPad ban inside China. No chance of this happening in any of the overtly corrupt US courts.
That's quite funny given how much IP is stolen in China with nobody in the West seeing a penny in damages..
"May Sue"? what a great bit of news! I May sue too.
First name: "Wu"
Second name: "Hoo".
I expect that's how the company feels about this!
I thought that the chinese only stole and copied stuff from other people.
This will go the same way the trademark of the name iPhone went too