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How Apple ended the iPad trademark saga A timeline

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In 2009 it paid Proview $55,000 for the name. Now it has agreed to pay another $60 million

FORTUNE -- "The two sides have reached an agreement after mediation. Apple Inc. has transferred $60 million to the requested account."

With those two sentences, posted in Chinese on the Weibo microblogging site by the Guangdong High People's Court, the three-year battle over Apple's (AAPL) rights to use the iPad trademark in mainland China came to an end.

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