Apple is involved in a legal dispute in China that is threatening to prevent it from selling one of its most popular products in the capital.
On May 19, the Beijing Intellectual Property Bureau ruled that Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus had a similar design to Shenzhen Baili Marketing Services’s 100C smartphone, and ordered Apple to stop selling the two phones in the city.
The order to halt sales of the iPhones has been suspended after Apple made an appeal.
“iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus as well as iPhone 6s, iPhone 6S Plus and iPhone SE models are all available for sale today in China. We appealed an administrative order from a regional patent tribunal in Beijing last month and as a result the order has been stayed pending review by the Beijing IP Court,” Apple spokesperson Rachel Tulley wrote in an email to Epoch Times.
Apple shares fell about 2 percent to $95.84 at 12:19 p.m. E.T. on June 17 following reports of the Apple case in the media. In the first quarter of this year in Greater China, which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan, Apple’s sales fell 26 percent to S$12.5 billion, according to the company.
