When Apple decided to launch out with an attack on the Chinese market, they encountered a problem. Someone had already deposited the trademark i-phone and considered that the name of the telephone of Apple was very close to its trademark. Since then we have heard nothing and the iPhone was marketed in China. Without making any announcement, the problem seems to be solved. The trademark i-phone has indeed disappeared from site of Chinese intellectual properties. Apple thus seems to have regulated the problem in a friendly way, including the signing of a cheque. Note that they did not act as opportunist. There was a short period in 2004 a telephone which was sold there under the name of the i-phone.
