Apple takes Johannesburg company to court over fake iPhones
Global technology giant Apple has turned to the Johannesburg High Court in a bid to stop a local company from trading in what it alleges are counterfeit iPhones and packaging.“From a date unknown to Apple, HHHH Tradings imported mobile phones, including packaging for mobile phones, into South Africa for the purposes of trade bearing one or more of Apple’s trademarks and/or marks confusingly similar thereto … but which had not been manufactured by or with the authority of Apple,” the company stated in its court papers.
Fake iPhones In its application, Apple has asked the court to declare the products counterfeit, prevent the company from dealing in them, and compel disclosure of their origin and the network behind them.
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