I have a strong feeling Tim Cook will continue to surpass Steve Jobs in approval rating if for no other reason then he tends to seem more level headed and far less prone to the legendary Steve Jobs outbursts.

Steve was legendary, the reason why Apple still exists today... However Steve's greatest gift to Apple was his visionary views on the staff at the top around him. Steve knew that Tim Cook could run Apple as good or better than he did or else he wouldn't have named him for the job...

Hopefully in the years to come, Tim can continue to move beyond the legacy and legend of Steve and continue to show the world why he is the best CEO the company could hope form.

Good work Tim!

The funny thing is...the people who have complained the loudest about the 'Conditions' at the Foxconn plants and how evil Apple is for how they were 'making' the workers work such overtime and in such 'awful' conditions will be the first people to step up and complain if prices go up at all.

It'll be iPad (Early 2012) versus the newer model iPad (Mid 2013). Even the original iPad and iPad "2" were only branded 'iPad' on the back of the devices so we'll just see the adoption to a Mac style system where your device is referred to by it's name, iPad, and it's release generation (Early 2012).

"...and that its future products wouldn’t compete with Proview’s products."

How do you compete with a bankrupt company that isn't going to be producing any products in the near future (ever)?

Ok, so it isn't related but reading this headline all I can think of is the title from the old 80's Cult Film...

"Big Trouble in Little China"

Seriously though, I think this is the scene where Apple starts winning victories over the bankrupt patent troll...

Apple's hobbies are more successful than most people's products...

"In 2006 Proview agreed to sell the global iPad trademark to US-based IP Application Development (IPAD) for £35,000 ($55,104), at which time Proview didn’t know had connections to Apple."

Apple was lead to believe by Proview that they were purchasing the GLOBAL iPad Trademarks owned by Proview, without direct access to the contract between the two companies it's impossible to state that the Chinese rights were or were not included in those, however, given the caliber of Apple's legal team I find it very unlikely that they would sign a document without reviewing the owned property they were purchasing.

"The Chinese trademarks, filed as far back as 2000, were apparently not included in that agreement, leading Apple and IP Application Development to sue Proview."

Apple sued Proview after the claim was made that they didn't own the Chinese Trademarks, thus, Apple was filing for legal action to prove that this IP had already been sold to them and was owned by them. Evidence to this fact was presented already once in a court in Hong Kong, (again, this is a CHINESE territory), in which the claim of Apple, Inc.'s ownership rights of the Chinese name was substantiated.

One can turn any article around to feed their own purposes, you tend to think Apple did some wrong to Proview by purchasing their IP (Purchasing, not stealing), and thus are trying to twist the items around to show Apple having had some form of wrong doing here when the facts just don't substantiate it.

No, it means that Apple purchased the Global Rights to the iPad name that Proview owned. It is very possible in other countries and/or jurisdictions the "iPad" name was trademarked by another company outside of proview as there is no 'World Wide' trademarking authority.

What Apple is contending, and have proven to the legal requirements in Hong Kong (A Chinese Territory), is that they purchased the IP (Trademark) that was owned by Proview and that it included the Chinese registration as well. Apple simply was negotiating with other individuals at the same time in other locations for the iPad trademarks in those locations.

Not you again.

If by truth you mean completely fabricated fiction, then you're right...however, if you mean truth as in factual statements then you've failed (yet again.)

Solution is for Apple to call up Foxconn and inform them that they are moving production to another (non-Chinese) facility due to this...

That information filters up to the Chinese government who, no doubt, makes a considerable amount of money off Foxconn's production of Apple products...

The Chinese government grants exclusive rights to the iPad trademark to Apple and orders Proview's CEO to a public lashing.

The world is right again.

Right or wrong, the thing about the ruling class is that they don't like anything that interferes with their remaining the ruling (wealthy) class and Proview is starting to do just that.