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)

蘋果在中國的iPad銷售可能中斷。據英國《金融時報》報道，此前中國一家法院駁回了蘋果在中國持有iPad商標的主張。

這是蘋果與唯冠科技（深圳）公司之間長期爭端的最新進展。唯冠是一家處境艱難的臺資企業，早在蘋果推出其平板電腦之前，就在多個國家注冊了IPAD商標。