Apple Faces Yet Another Chinese Copyright Lawsuit

Just as Apple paid $60 million to Proview Technology for the rights to the "iPad" name, another Chinese company is claiming Apple is infringing on one of its trademarks and is seeking approximately $80,000 in damages.

The target of the lawsuit this time? Apple's "Snow Leopard," the name given to OS X version 10.6.

Jiangsu Xuebao -- a Chinese household chemicals manufacturer -- registered a copyright for the Chinese translation of "Snow Leopard" in 2000, according to M.I.C. Gadget, a blog focused on Chinese technology.

The first release of Apple's Snow Leopard arrived in the summer of 2009. Apple reportedly tried to register the "Xuebao" trademark in 2008 for use in selling Snow…
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