Earlier this year, iPads were pulled from shelves in numerous electronic stores in China due to a case filed by Proview, a Chinese company that used to own the iPad trademark in the country from the year 2000 up until the past few days. Apple paid a cool $60 million for the right to use the name iPad in China. Now, yet another Chinese company has sued Apple, this time for the Snow Leopard trademark.
A Chinese household chemical company called?Jiangsu Xuebao registered the trademark for Xuebao?? the Chinese characters for the word means "Snow Leopard"????back in 2000. The company has already filed a lawsuit against Apple in Shanghai, and the first hearing is scheduled on July 10. According to the lawsuit, Xuebao is seeking roughly $80,000 in compensation from Apple, an amount far smaller than the $400 million Proview asked for iPad.
But as one Chinese lawyer said, the court would most likely not rule in favor of Jiangsu Xuebao. Aside from the fact that Apple did not use the Chinese word for Snow Leopard in its Chinese website, Xuebao mainly manufactures household products like toothpaste, detergent, and shoe polish. It does, however, make touchscreen ad displays and mobile software for data entry. Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard was released in 2009; Apple has since released version 10.7 Lion, and will soon release version 10.8 Mountain Lion.
This article was written by Mariella Moon and originally appeared on Tecca
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