Do you remember the student from New Yorkwho a few months ago had a brilliant idea on how to make money quickly and easily? This student decided to make money on his interest in white iPhone 4, which was not yet officially available at the time, and founded the website whiteiphone4now.com, where he offered interested parties to exchange their black covers for white ones, which he bought in bulk through his friend in a Chinese factory. The teenager took aonec earned over $130 and his iPhone 4 has also been "repainted" by many famous people (including Steve Wozniak). However, now Apple decided to hit the cheater hard.
According to the server macrumors ordered by the company's legal department Apple returning all illegal profits to the trademark owner (i.e. the company Apple). Official message from the company Apple reads like this:
Defendant Fei Lam used the trademark arbitrarily and without permission Apple in connection with the sale of the kit "iPhone 4 White", which included a white front and back panel of the phone iPhone 4 with company logo Apple and the trademark "iPhone", which is used exclusively in the promotion and sale of the phone iPhoneThe defendant knew all along that the company Apple never approved the sale of white covers, and that he obtained these covers from sources that were not authorized to sell them.
Apple also discovered that Foxconn employee Alan Yang supplied the young man with parts.
I think it will be resolved through an out-of-court settlement anyway. Pro Apple it's important to show people like this that not like this… but I wouldn't expect any major follow-up for Fei Lam.