Apple could face disruption of its iPad sales in China after a court rejected its claim to own the iPad trademark in the country, Financial Times reported.

The developments are the latest in a long-running dispute between Apple and Proview Technology (Shenzhen), a struggling Taiwanese-based company that registered trademarks for the name IPAD in many countries before Apple conceived its tablet computer.

(China.org.cn December 9, 2011)

蘋果在中國(guó)的iPad銷售可能中斷。據(jù)英國(guó)《金融時(shí)報(bào)》報(bào)道，此前中國(guó)一家法院駁回了蘋果在中國(guó)持有iPad商標(biāo)的主張。

這是蘋果與唯冠科技（深圳）公司之間長(zhǎng)期爭(zhēng)端的最新進(jìn)展。唯冠是一家處境艱難的臺(tái)資企業(yè)，早在蘋果推出其平板電腦之前，就在多個(gè)國(guó)家注冊(cè)了IPAD商標(biāo)。