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		</div><p>Technology giant Apple has lost a legal battle with a Chinese company over the use of the iPhone name on wallets and handbags.</p>
<p>A court in Beijing said Apple failed to prove iPhone was a &#8220;famous brand&#8221; in China before the local company applied for a trademark in 2007, an official legal newspaper reported.<br />
Such status under Chinese law might limit its use on other products.</p>
<p>The ruling in late April allows Xintong Tiandi Technology to keep using the iPhone name, according to the Legal Daily, which is published by the ruling Communist Party&#8217;s legal affairs committee.</p>
<p>The company registered the name for use on handbags, mobile phone cases and other leather goods.<br />
No comment was available from the Beijing Higher Level People&#8217;s Court.</p>
<p>China is Apple&#8217;s second-biggest market after the United States, though first-quarter sales in the Greater China region fell 26% from a year earlier.</p>
<p>Apple&#8217;s iTunes and iBooks services have also been suspended in China, though the company said last month that it hopes to resume operations soon.</p>
<p>Apple applied to trademark iPhone for computer- and software-related goods in 2002, according to the Legal Daily.</p>
<p>Xintong Tiandi applied to use the name on wallets and leather goods two years before Apple&#8217;s smartphones went on sale in China in 2009, it said.</p>
<p>Apple filed a lawsuit in 2012 challenging the Chinese company&#8217;s use of the name.</p>
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