Beijing threatens ban for iPhone 6 – Mac & i

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Apple is the iPhone 6 and the iPhone is no longer allowed to sell 6 Plus in Beijing. The design infringing the patent of a small Chinese smartphone manufacturer.

The Beijing Intellectual Property Office, Apple has prohibited the sale of its iPhone models 6 and 6 Plus, because the patented design of a Chinese smartphones – the model 100c Baili – to see similar. As the Wall Street Journal reports that the threatened ban limited to Beijing and also does not apply to the current 6s models.

Apple assured in a statement that the iPhone models 6 and 6 Plus as iPhone 6s and 6s Plus in China are currently still being sold. The Group has received official statement from a regional patent office in Beijing last month and filed an appeal against it. So long was exposed to the arrangement. Neither on the patentee Baili nor its smartphone models 100c and 100+ there are especially a lot of information. In an online store can be found only a handful of pictures and a video from the 2014

From Smartphone 100c respectively 100+ there are few pictures, this comes from the online store Vickmall.
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Should enforce the authority, the ban should nevertheless have relatively little effect on Apple’s sales figures, because most traders focus on the acute ellen 6s models and in the fall the iPhone 7 expected.

the little bizarre case and the setbacks of recent months show, however, how difficult is the Chinese market for Apple. Presumably, therefore, the Apple stock plummeted by 2.3 percent. China is an important market for Apple, the manufacturer achieved there about a quarter of its sales and almost doubled its revenues last year.

In April, the Chinese had however already locked Apple e-book and movie deal in May, the group lost the exclusive rights to the trademark iPhone. Now also a Chinese bag manufacturer may use the name. Perhaps pays sometime the one-billion-dollar investment in the Uber-competitors Didi Chuxing from. Such reasoned CEO Tim Cook with the words: “We have chosen from a number of strategic reasons for the investment, including the chance to learn more about specific areas of the Chinese market.” <- AUTHOR-DATA MARKER BEGIN! -> (atr)