We don't really have the whole story here. If you read the news story here from China: http://topics.scmp.com/news/china-business-watch/article/Apple-faces-fig

We don't really have the whole story here. If you read the news story here from China: http://topics.scmp.com/news/china-business-watch/article/Apple-faces-fight-or-big-payout http://topics.scmp.com/news/china-business-watch/article/App... > The Hong Kong court found that Apple and IP Application, while drawing up the agreement for that sale, discovered the two mainland iPad trademarks were not owned by Taipei-based Proview Electronics as they were led to believe, but by Proview Technology. > Apple said the defendants, while acknowledging the mistake, refused to rectify the matter and asked Apple to pay US$10 million for the two trademarks. Apple and IP began their action against the Proview group on May 20 last year. All of this points that Apple didn't exactly do this intentionally.