Chinese regulators say design of Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus violates patent

[Shawn Knight]

Apple has been ordered by Chinese regulators to halt sales of its iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in Beijing due to a patent dispute originating from a local Chinese company according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

Shenzhen Baili claims via a message on the Beijing Intellectual Property Bureau’s website that the two iPhone models infringe on a patent it owns regarding the exterior design of its 100C smartphone (pictured below). The statement on the website is dated May 19 although the Journal says Chinese media only became aware of it this week.

Apple on Friday said the order had been stayed during the appeals process which means the phones remain available for sale.

Apple may simply be stalling from a strategic standpoint. A source reportedly familiar with the matter told the Journal that some stores in Beijing had already stopped selling the two models months ago, replacing them with the current iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. What’s more, Apple will reportedly end production of the two older models in the near future.

Apple is no stranger to legal disputes in China and even with Shenzhen Baili. Filings with China’s State Intellectual Property Office indicate that Apple has been battling with the company for more than a year over the patent which was upheld by the regulator’s reexamination board on December 2 of last year.

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[Sniped_Ash]

The Chinese are saying that,I must check my calendar,I sure we aren't on the 1st of April.

The irony of China protecting intellectual property is so massive it can be seen from space.

 

[psycros]

The Chinese are saying that,I must check my calendar,I sure we aren't on the 1st of April.

The irony of China protecting intellectual property is so massive it can be seen from space.

The *real* irony is that they protect their domestic patents viciously, even when its strictly Chinese companies involved. Meanwhile, they do not acknowledge ANY foreign-registered patents - each and every one has to be registered IN CHINA as well as abroad, and they'll only grant them if the product in question is being produced in China. This is who your government has sent all the manufacturing jobs to.

 

[davislane1]

The Chinese are saying that,I must check my calendar,I sure we aren't on the 1st of April.

The irony of China protecting intellectual property is so massive it can be seen from space.

The *real* irony is that they protect their domestic patents viciously, even when its strictly Chinese companies involved. Meanwhile, they do not acknowledge ANY foreign-registered patents - each and every one has to be registered IN CHINA as well as abroad, and they'll only grant them if the product in question is being produced in China. This is who your government has sent all the manufacturing jobs to.

The corps send the jobs there. The government merely facilitates and encourages it.

This is all nit picky details, though. The gov't is still the bad guy.

 

[risc32]

This is just too fun. chinese call patent infringement.......

 

[yRaz]

It's funny because Apple tried to do the same thing in the US to force Android out of the market in 2008 IIRC.

 

[noel24]

Yeah, try some of Your own medicine, Mob.

 

[wiyosaya]

It's funny because Apple tried to do the same thing in the US to force Android out of the market in 2008 IIRC.

Yeah, Karma is a *****. LOL

The Chinese are saying that,I must check my calendar,I sure we aren't on the 1st of April.

The irony of China protecting intellectual property is so massive it can be seen from space.

The *real* irony is that they protect their domestic patents viciously, even when its strictly Chinese companies involved. Meanwhile, they do not acknowledge ANY foreign-registered patents - each and every one has to be registered IN CHINA as well as abroad, and they'll only grant them if the product in question is being produced in China. This is who your government has sent all the manufacturing jobs to.

It is not our government. It is all our greedy corporations that don't mind further exploiting citizens of other countries that are already so used to exploitation by their own countrymen, they have no idea what not being exploited is like.

 

[Puiu]

Oh the irony, apple being sued for iphone exterior design

 

[DaveBG]

LOL drinking their own medicine they will!

 

[That Dude There]

[/QUOTE]
It is not our government. It is all our greedy corporations that don't mind further exploiting citizens of other countries that are already so used to exploitation by their own countrymen, they have no idea what not being exploited is like.[/QUOTE]

It's not our government? Can't it be both? It is both because they're all masons.