Few hours after Apple announcment of iPad many companies are caliming to be the ligetimate user and tradmark owner of the name iPad for their prodcts. Apple is likely to face a legal case from Fujitsu over the iPad
trademark that it has used for its recently unveiled tablet PC. Fujitsu is selling a handheld device called iPad (shown in above picture) since 2002, and has an outstanding trademark application dating back to 2003. In addition to this Europe’s largest chip-maker STMicro, Siemens and Canadian lingerie company Coconut Grove, all sell products called iPad.
A chinnees company ZOMG! Maker of Chinese iPad clone P88 is planning to sue Apple for cloning its tablet! The company further charging that Apple has not only replicated the design of its
multi-touch tablet, but also the device support and the sleeve. They’re
identical, he says. A company representative Wu added,
“I was very angry and flabbergasted when I saw the news of the iPad presentation two days ago… It is certainly our design. They’ve stolen because we present our P88 to everyone six months ago at the IFA (International Electronics Fair in Berlin).”
Sales of the P88 haven’t been too bad, but “if the iPad enters the Chinese market, we will definitely take a hit,” says Wu. He adds that he has already applied for a patent for the product last May — a process that can take up to a year in China. “We’ll have to follow the law,” says Wu, admitting that it will be difficult to take on Apple in the United States, but “if the iPad enters the Chinese market, we will sue them this spring.”
