Key case for Apple drags on in China

The cause of this dispute can be traced back 11 years. Proview Taipei, like Proview Shenzhen a subsidiary of Proview International, registered the iPad trademark in a number of countries and regions as early as 2000. Proview Shenzhen registered the trademark in two classes in mainland China in 2001. At that time Apple had not yet launched its tablet PC product iPad.