{"id":49797,"date":"2012-05-11T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=49797"},"modified":"2012-05-11T09:03:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T07:03:11","slug":"apples-settlement-offer-rejected-by-proview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/49797-apples-settlement-offer-rejected-by-proview.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s settlement offer rejected by Proview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> has reportedly offered <a title=\"Proview Technology\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/388149-Proview-Technology\">Proview Technology<\/a> $16 million (R128.72 million) to settle an ongoing legal dispute between the two companies over the use of the iPad name. However, the offer was rejected for being too low.<\/p>\n<p>Proview is instead seeking damages to the tune of $400 million (R3.22 billion), which it will use to appease creditors that have helped keep the cash-strapped company afloat during a difficult financial time.<\/p>\n<p>Proview originally planned to sue Apple in the United States for $2 billion (R16.09 billion), but a Californian judge rejected the lawsuit, and encouraged the companies to reach a settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Apple claims it licensed the trademark from Proview in 2009; however, the Chinese company claims the transaction was invalid due to a number of circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/05\/10\/apple-proview-ipad-settlement-rejected\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple offered to settle a trademark dispute with Proview, but the offer was rejected for being too low<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":48290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[605,2632,8913,1075],"class_list":["post-49797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-apple-ipad","tag-proview","tag-trademark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49799,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49797\/revisions\/49799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}