Week the legal dispute between iPad and Proview has ended through an agreement according to which Apple undertakes to pay 60 million dollars to the Asian company for using the iPad trademark without right when it sold its tablet in China. Now, a week after the end of the heart, the people from Proview claim that Tim Cook would have paid the amount of money out of his own pocket, making the connection between this amount and the $75 million that Tim Cook turned down to receive them as dividends for the shares held in Apple.
Pointing out that Apple CEO Tim Cook in May refused his US$75 million dividends from over 1 million shares, Proview's founder and chairman Yang Rongshan–who fought with Apple for the iPad trademark in China and was awarded US$60 million by the court–said people around him realized the amount was "very close with the compensation Apple would pay for Proview". Ray Mai, who served in the legal department for Proview's Taiwan arm, held the same view. Speaking to IT Times, a mainland-based technology newspaper, Mai said the trademark dispute was distinguishable from other infringement cases as someone in Apple who had made a mistake, and the consequences of which should not be passed on to the shareholders.
"Since Steve Jobs was gone, Cook should take up the responsibility," said Mai.
Of course, everything is just pure speculation, Tim Cook really refusing a very large amount of money, but I doubt that this refusal would have anything to do with Proview. It seems that some Apple employees would have made big mistakes during the period when the iPad brand was purchased from Proview and the Chinese believe that Tim Cook would have paid, with his own money, the mistakes made by Apple in the past. If this theory is true, then Tim Cook deserves all the respect of his employees, but I am extremely circumspect about the real reasons for Tim Cook's refusal to collect money.
