Amaya Toman Lawsuits are not uncommon with Apple - for example, Apple even had to fight over the name for its iPhone. But the Cupertino company also experienced a similar anabasis in connection with its iPad, and we will look at this period in today's article in a little more detail.
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In the second half of March 2010, Apple ended its dispute with the Japanese company Fujitsu - the dispute concerned the use of the iPad trademark in the United States. It all started about two months after Steve Jobs presented the first-ever Apple tablet on stage during the then Keynote. Fujtsu also had its own iPAD in its portfolio at the time. It was essentially a hand-held computing device. The iPAD from Fujitsu was, among other things, equipped with Wi-Fi connection, Bluetooth connectivity, support for VoIP calls and was equipped with a 3,5-inch color touch screen. At the time when Apple introduced its iPad to the world, iPAD had been in Fujitsu's range for ten long years. However, it was not a product intended for ordinary ordinary consumers, but a tool for employees of retail stores, which should help them keep track of the offer of goods and sales.
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However, Apple and Fujitsu were not the only entities that fought for the name iPad / iPAD. For example, this name was also used by Mag-Tek for its hand-held device intended for numerical encryption. However, at the beginning of 2009, both mentioned iPADs fell into oblivion, and the US Patent Office declared the trademark, which was once registered by Fujitsu, to be abandoned. However, Fujitsu very quickly decided to renew its registration application, at the very moment when Apple was also trying to register the iPad trademark around the world. The result was a dispute between the two companies regarding the official possibility of using the mentioned trademark. Masahiro Yamane, who headed Fujitsu's public relations division at the time, said in an interview with journalists that the name belonged to Fujitsu. The dispute concerned not only the name as such, but also what the device called iPad should actually be able to do - the description of both devices contained similar items, at least "on paper". But Apple, for understandable reasons, really paid a lot for the iPad name - that's why the whole dispute ended with the Cupertino company paying Fujitsu a financial compensation of four million dollars, and the rights to use the iPad trademark thus fell to it.
