Jan 5
Apple reclaims i-Phone trademark from Chinese company
Hanwang Technology, a Chinese company that makes e-readers, applied for the trademark for “i-phone” in 2004. The i-phone was a handset the company no longer sells.
According to IDG News Service, the new owner of the trademark application has changed to Apple. A Hangwang official reportedly said that the Chinese company reached an agreement with Apple over the trademark to the iPhone name. Details of the agreement were not provided.
When China Unicom launched the iPhone last October, it was said the similarity between the i-phone and iPhone names could have made the sale of Apple’s handset illegal.
Though Apple only sold 5,000 iPhones at launch with China Unicom, sales continued at a steady pace through the end of the year. In early December, it was revealed that Apple had sold 100,000 handsets in the nation of over 1 billion. It is believed that gray market sales far exceed those numbers, however.
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