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Apple in Legal Battle Over iPad Name in China (Voices of America, 02 March 2012)(Audio +text)
Industry experts expect the technology company Apple to release a new iPad on March seventh. Apple sold over fifteen million iPads in the final three months of last year alone. Now the popular computer tablet is in its third generation.

But as Apple prepares to launch a new iPad, it faces legal cases in China over rights to the name of the device.

lawyer for Proview, Xie Xianghui, said Wednesday that he believes Apple has not provided new evidence for the case in Guangdong. Apple is appealing a decision by a lower court. The court ruled that the company does not own the iPad name.

On Wednesday, a court in Guangdong province heard a case brought by the Chinese company Proview Technology. Proview is based in Shenzhen in China’s south, and belongs to Proview International Holdings Ltd. The company says it holds the legal rights to the iPad name in China. Apple says it bought the iPad trademark in China and nine other countries from a business owned by Proview in two thousand nine.

Another lawyer for Proview, Xiao Caiyuan, said the legal issue over the trademark is clear. He said his company is fighting Apple over the idea of ownership. He also said Proview would settle with Apple for the right amount of money.

Proview says it holds the trademark for the name of a device called an Internet Personal Access Device, or IPAD. The device looks like a desktop computer. Proview says it sold about twenty thousand of them over about ten years. It says it received the trademark or legal rights to the name in two thousand one.

Proview Electronics Co

An advertisement for Proview's “IPAD” shows that it looks like Apple’s iMac.

Proview is in financial trouble. It has reported losses since two thousand eight and cut thousands of workers. Apple's legal team says that Proview is nearing financial failure. They say it has no product, no buyers or suppliers.

Apple argues a ruling against it would harm the interests of buyers in China. Apple’s holds seventy-six percent of the tablet computer market in the country with its iPad.

A final decision by the high court in Guangdong is expected to take weeks.

Still, at least for now, the legal battle has not hurt Apple’s stock price. The technology company has the most valuable publicly traded stock in the world, with a total value of about five hundred billion dollars.

And that's the VOA Special English Economics Report. To read and hear more economics news for people learning English, and for transcripts, MP3s and now PDFs of our programs for e-readers, go to voaspecialenglish. And follow us on Facebook, YouTube and iTunes. I'm June Simms.

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1ères8 : Thanksgiving G2

Prepare an oral account about Thanksgiving , watching the following videos and browsing the web. Prepare a series of questions to test Group1's knowledge (Easy ones, don't be too demanding !)

The English colonists we call Pilgrims celebrated days of thanksgiving as part of their religion. But these were days of prayer, not days of feasting. Our national holiday really stems from the feast held in the autumn of 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag to celebrate the colony's first successful harvest.  1) http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/feast/ (Interactive museum) 2)http://www.history.com/topics/thanksgiving/videos#history-of-the-thanksgiving-holiday (Video) http://www.history.com/videos/history-of-the-thanksgiving-holiday (URL)

1ères8 : G1 Rocketboom on the Origins of Halloween

1ères8 G1 : Halloween

Prepare an oral account  about the origins of Halloween and focus on the Puritans' superstitions . Browse the following websites :1)http://www.history.com/videos/haunted-history-of-halloween (Video)
2)http://www.halloweenhistory.org/ (Text)

3)Halloween Timeline

• 1,000-100 B.C.: The Celts celebrate Samhain on November 1st, painting faces on gourds and their own faces to scare away spirits
• 600 A.D.: In an effort to stop the pagan celebrations, Pope Boniface IV designatesNovember 1st All Saints' Day
• 800 A.D.: Pope Gregory III declares that villagers may dress in costume as saints, and young men must go door to door to beg for food for the poor
• 1500s: Samhain and All Saints' Day become All Hallows' Day, the night before, All Hallows' Evening, Hallow Evening, or Hallowe'en
• 1600s: Considering them Catholic holidays, New England Puritans ban Halloween,Christmas and Easter
• 1840s: The Irish Potato Famine brings Irish Catholics to America, along with their Halloween traditions. Due to the abundance of pumpkins, they carve them into jack o'lanterns instead of turnips
• 1860s: Members of the Catholic and Episcopalian churches campaign to officially sanction Halloween
• 1870: Halloween becomes a popular holiday, along with the idea of "tricking", an excuse to cause mischief
• 1923: New York begins citywide Halloween celebrations
• Present: Halloween is a 2.5 billion dollar industry

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