Beijing’s Intellectual Property Office has ruled against Apple in a patent dispute brought by a Chinese handset maker.<\/p>\n
The iPhone 6 and 6S models are similar to Shenzhen Baili’s little-known 100C phone, the authority ruled.<\/p>\n
In theory, this could lead to iPhone sales being halted in Beijing but sales continue as Apple has appealed to a higher court.<\/p>\n
The tech giant said the handset is still available throughout China.<\/p>\n
“iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus as well as iPhone 6s, iPhone 6S Plus and iPhone SE models are all available for sale today in China. We appealed an administrative order from a regional patent tribunal in Beijing last month and as a result the order has been stayed pending review by the Beijing IP Court,” the firm said.<\/p>\n
Analyst Ben Wood, from CCS Insight, told the BBC he was confident that Apple would resolve the situation.<\/p>\n
“Large companies will always be reluctant to settle if they feel they don’t have a case to answer, but the Chinese market is so strategic to Apple that if they have to settle, they will,” he told the BBC.<\/p>\n
“This is a constant challenge for all large tech firms.<\/p>\n
“Typically these sorts of legal spats are a game of brinkmanship.”<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n
Beijing’s Intellectual Property Office has ruled against Apple in a patent dispute brought by a Chinese handset maker. The iPhone 6 and 6S models are similar to Shenzhen Baili’s little-known 100C phone, the authority ruled. In theory, this could lead to iPhone sales being halted in Beijing but sales continue as Apple has appealed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":223326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/223326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}