China faces conflict of law, business in iPad row

February 17, 2012 at 3:29 pm in The Dickinson Press

BEIJING (AP) Chinese officials face a choice in Apple’s dispute with a local company over the iPad trademark side with a struggling entity that a court says owns the name or with a global brand that has created hundreds of thousands of jobs in China. Experts say that means Beijing’s political priorities rather than the courts will settle the dispute if it escalates.
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