Apple may lose the iPhone brand in Brazil

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In December last year, the Brazilian market has a Android smartphone, which bears a familiar name to many iPhone. By the company Apple, he has nothing to do, and designed by a local firm Gradiente, which is not too familiar to even the Brazilians, not to mention other countries. Attempts to copy a particular company's products Apple made ​​constantly, and usually end the same way - winning the U.S. company in court. Sometimes does not reach the court. But not in this case, the position of Apple in Brazil were not prepared for such an attack. According to CNET, a source at the Brazilian Institute of Intellectual Property, said the agency is likely to decide in favor of Gradiente. This company is registered trademark iphone long before Apple introduced the smartphone in the local market. In addition, the traditional preference for local producers, not foreign. So, apparently Gradiente able to use this product in the name of Brazil until 2018. Representatives of the American company had no immediate comment on the situation. Recall that the name of the Apple iPhone was purchased from Cisco in February 2007, but initially applies only to the United States. In other countries there is already similar to the Brazilian situation in China, the company Proview has received $ 60 million kickbacks for the name iPad. Gradiente representatives are also ready for a similar solution.