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.
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1 October 2012 On July 2, 2012, Guangdong Higher People's Court announced that the trademark dispute between Apple Inc and Proview Technology (Proview Shenzhen) had been settled through mediation.